Henry Fielding Short Quotes

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Life may as properly be called an art as any other.

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Money is the fruit of evil as often as the root of it.

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To whom nothing is given, of him can nothing be required.

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

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Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.

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The law of nature is a jargon of words, which means nothing.

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Oh, the roast beef of England,
And old England's roast beef!

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Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.

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Map me no maps, sir, my head is a map, a map of the whole world.

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I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.

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A good heart will, at all times, betray the best head in the world.

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Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.

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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.

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To say the truth, every physician almost hath his favorite disease.

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It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.

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Hairbreadth missings of happiness look like the insults of Fortune.

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Men who pay for what they eat will insist on gratifying their palates

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What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil's work for free.

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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.

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The devil take me, if I think anything but love to be the object of love.

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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying which is terrible.

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Yes, I had two strings to my bow; both golden ones, egad! and both cracked.

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The only source of the true Ridiculous (as it appears to me) is affectation

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Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he has injured you

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The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.

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Oons, sir! do you say that I am drunk? I say, sir, that I am as sober as a judge.

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Depend on me; never fear your enemies. I'll warrant we make more noise than they.

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No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.

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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.

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In the forming of female friendships beauty seldom recommends one woman to another.

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