All Henry Fielding Quotes
Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Henry Fielding
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I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
Henry Fielding
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The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts.
Henry Fielding
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The world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.
Henry Fielding
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A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!
Henry Fielding
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There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
Henry Fielding
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Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness.
Henry Fielding
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When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough, I've done my duty, and I've done no more.
Henry Fielding
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Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.
Henry Fielding
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