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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
Henry Fielding
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Henry Fielding
Age: 47 †
Born: 1707
Born: April 22
Died: 1754
Died: October 8
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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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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.
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Heroes, notwithstanding the high ideas which, by the means of flatterers, they may entertain of themselves, or the world may conceive of them, have certainly more of mortal than divine about them.
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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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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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Distance of Time and Place do really cure what they seem to aggravate and taking Leave of our Friends resembles taking Leave of the World, concerning which it hath been often said, that it is not Death but Dying which is terrible.
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Wine is a turncoat first a friend and then an enemy.
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