We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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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A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
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There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
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What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.
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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.
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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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O innocence, how glorious and happy a portion art thou to the breast that possesses thee! thou fearest neither the eyes nor the tongues of men. Truth, the most powerful of all things, is thy strongest friend; and the brighter the light is in which thou art displayed, the more it discovers thy transcendent beauties.
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When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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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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There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man–the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.
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There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
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