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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
Henry Fielding
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Henry Fielding
Age: 47 †
Born: 1707
Born: April 22
Died: 1754
Died: October 8
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Conscience is a judge in every man's breast, which none can cheat or corrupt, and perhaps the only incorrupt thing about him yet, inflexible and honest as this judge is (however polluted the bench on which he sits), no man can, in my opinion, enjoy any applause which is not there adjudged to be his due.
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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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The same animal which hath the honour to have some part of his flesh eaten at the table of a duke, may perhaps be degraded in another part,and some of his limbs gibbeted, as it were, in the vilest stall in town.
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Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
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There are persons of that general philanthropy and easy tempers, which the world in contempt generally calls good-natured, who seem to be sent into the world with the same design with which men put little fish into a pike pond, in order only to be devoured by that voracious water-hero.
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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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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
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To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.
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Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
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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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There are those who never reason on what they should do, but what they have done as if Reason had her eyes behind, and could only see backwards.
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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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Some general officers should pay a stricter regard to truth than to call the depopulating other countries the service of their own.
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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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Every physician almost hath his favourite disease.
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Sensuality not only debases both body and mind, but dulls the keen edge of pleasure.
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Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.
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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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