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I describe not men, but manners not an individual, but a species.

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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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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Sensuality not only debases both body and mind, but dulls the keen edge of pleasure.
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The life of a coquette is one constant lie and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of them is that they are never what they seem.
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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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No acquisitions of guilt can compensate the loss of that solid inward comfort of mind, which is the sure companion of innocence and virtue nor can in the least balance the evil of that horror and anxiety which, in their room, guilt introduces into our bosoms.
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To the generality of men you cannot give a stronger hint for them to impose upon you than by imposing upon yourself.
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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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Great vices are the proper objects of our detestation, smaller faults of our pity, but affectation appears to be the only true source of the ridiculous.
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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for nothing can be more reasonable, than that slaves and flatterers should exact the same taxes on all below them, which they themselves pay to all above them.
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