All Henry Fielding Quotes
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.
Henry Fielding
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Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
Henry Fielding
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A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.
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Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.
Henry Fielding
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Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.
Henry Fielding
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LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
Henry Fielding
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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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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
Henry Fielding
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Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.
Henry Fielding
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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
Henry Fielding
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Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.
Henry Fielding
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