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Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favour.
Henry Fielding
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Henry Fielding
Age: 47 †
Born: 1707
Born: April 22
Died: 1754
Died: October 8
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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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With the latitude of unbounded scurrility, it is easy enough to attain the character of a wit, especially when it is considered how wonderfully pleasant it is to the generality of the public to see the folly of their acquaintance exposed by a third person.
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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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Considering the unforeseen events of this world, we should be taught that no human condition should inspire men with absolute despair.
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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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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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A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!
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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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However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.
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All nature wears one universal grin.
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What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.
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There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man--the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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O vanity, how little is thy force acknowledged or thy operations discerned! How wantonly dost thou deceive mankind under different disguises! Sometimes thou dost wear the face of pity sometimes of generosity nay, thou hast the assurance to put on those glorious ornaments which belong only to heroic virtue.
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Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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The woman and the soldier who do not defend the first pass will never defend the last.
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