English - Novelist | April 22, 1707 - October 8, 1754
I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
Henry Fielding
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts.
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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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Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.
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Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness.
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He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later.
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Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.
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If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.
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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
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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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Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.
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