The greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but the species of it. The covetous, the prodigal, the superstitious, the libertine, and the coffee-house politician, are all Quixotes in their several ways.
HENRY FIELDINGGood-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of pleasing, or contributing as much as possible to the ease and happiness of those with whom you converse.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
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All nature wears one universal grin.
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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
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Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
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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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Enough is equal to a feast.
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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.
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However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
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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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Success is a fruit of slow growth.
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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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In a debate, rather pull to pieces the argument of thy antagonists than offer him any of thy own; for thus thou wilt fight him in his own country.
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There is nothing so useful to man in general, nor so beneficial to particular societies and individuals, as trade. This is that alma mater, at whose plentiful breast all mankind are nourished.
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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
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