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Henry Fielding
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Henry Fielding
Age: 47 †
Born: 1707
Born: April 22
Died: 1754
Died: October 8
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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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When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.
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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.
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Ingratitude never so thoroughly pierces the human breast as when it proceeds from those in whose behalf we have been guilty of transgressions.
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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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It is an error common to many to take the character of mankind from the worst and basest amongst them whereas, as an excellent writer has observed, nothing should be esteemed as characteristical, of a species but what is to be found amongst the best and the most perfect individuals of that species.
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Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favour.
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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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A comic writer should of all others be the least excused for deviating from nature, since it may not be always so easy for a serious poet to meet with the great and the admirable but life every where furnishes an accurate observer with the ridiculous.
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Wine is a turncoat first a friend and then an enemy.
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Worth begets in base minds, envy in great souls, emulation.
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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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Penny saved is a penny got.
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Good-nature is that benevolent and amiable temper of mind which disposes us to feel the misfortunes and enjoy the happiness of others, and, consequently, pushes us on to promote the latter and prevent the former and that without any abstract contemplation on the beauty of virtue, and without the allurements or terrors of religion.
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He in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him.
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It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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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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Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
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