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.
HENRY FIELDINGWhere the law ends tyranny begins.
More Henry Fielding Quotes
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A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.
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A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
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Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to reason, and how to ridicule; taking the utmost care never to apply those arts improperly.
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To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.
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When I’m not thanked at all, I’m thanked enough.
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All nature wears one universal grin.
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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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Where the law ends tyranny begins.
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Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.
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Enough is equal to a feast.
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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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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.
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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
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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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Handsome is that handsome does.
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