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Life may as properly be called an art as any other.
Henry Fielding
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Henry Fielding
Age: 47 †
Born: 1707
Born: April 22
Died: 1754
Died: October 8
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.
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An author ought to consider himself, not as a gentleman who gives a private or eleemosynary treat, but rather as one who keeps a public ordinary, at which all persons are welcome for their money.
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A grave aspect to a grave character is of much more consequence than the world is generally aware of a barber may make you laugh, but a surgeon ought rather to make you cry.
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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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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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Wine is a turncoat first a friend and then an enemy.
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Tea! The panacea for everything from weariness to a cold to a murder Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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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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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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Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.
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What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.
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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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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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It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.
Henry Fielding
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
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Penny saved is a penny got.
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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
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Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.
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Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
Henry Fielding
Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.
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