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A lottery is a taxation on all of the fools in creation.
Henry Fielding
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Henry Fielding
Age: 47 †
Born: 1707
Born: April 22
Died: 1754
Died: October 8
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It is a trite but true Observation, that Examples work more forcibly on the Mind than Precepts: and if this be just in what is odious and blameable, it is more strongly so in what is amiable and praiseworthy.
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When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough.
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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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There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.
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