Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
HENRY FIELDINGA newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.
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Domestic happiness is the end of almost all our pursuits, and the common reward of all our pains. When men find themselves forever barred from this delightful fruition, they are lost to all industry, and grow careless of all their worldly affairs. Thus they become bad subjects, bad relations, bad friends, and bad men.
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I am content; that is a blessing greater than riches; and he to whom that is given need ask no more.
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For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.
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A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.
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We should not be too hasty in bestowing either our praise or censure on mankind, since we shall often find such a mixture of good and evil in the same character, that it may require a very accurate judgment and a very elaborate inquiry to determine on which side the balance turns.
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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy’s eyes are open.
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Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.
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There is scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself.
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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
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There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.
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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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Penny saved is a penny got.
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