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• A wonder lasts but nine days, and then the puppy's eyes are open.

  Henry Fielding

  Eye, Nine, Lasts

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• Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller. . .who always proportions his stay in any place.

  Henry Fielding

  Proportion, Wells, Traveller

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• When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough.

  Henry Fielding

  Educational, Enough

  'Tom Thumb the Great' (1731) act 1, sc. 3

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• What a silly fellow must he be who would do the devil's work for free.

  Henry Fielding

  Silly, Devil, Fellows

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• Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.

  Henry Fielding

  Dance, War, Dancing

  Henry Fielding, Arthur Murphy (1783). “The Works of Henry Fielding, Esq: With the Life of the Author. In Twelve Volumes. A New Edition. To which is Now First Added, The Fathers; Or, The Good-natured Man”, p.126

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• Enough is equal to a feast.

  Henry Fielding

  Enough, Equal

  Henry Fielding (1840). “The Works of Henry Fielding: Complete in One Volume, with Memoir of the Author”, p.948

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• Penny saved is a penny got.

  Henry Fielding

  Pennies, Saved

  Henry Fielding (1803). “The miser: a comedy”, p.71

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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.

  Henry Fielding

  May, Serious, Ridiculous

  Henry Fielding (1820). “The history of the adventures of Joseph Andrews, and his friend, Mr. Abraham Adams: Written in imitation of the manner of Cervantes ...”, p.3

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• Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

  Henry Fielding

  Funny, Money, Years

  Henry Fielding (1803). “The miser: a comedy”, p.64

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• Human life very much resembles a game of chess: for, as in the latter, while a gamester is too attentive to secure himself very strongly on one side of the board, he is apt to leave an unguarded opening on the other, so doth it often happen in life.

  Henry Fielding

  Games, Boards, Chess

  Henry Fielding (1857). “Joseph Andrews. History of the life of the late Mr. Jonathan Wild the great”, p.57

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• It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place.

  Henry Fielding

  May, Admiration, Wells

  Henry Fielding (1811). “The History of Amelia”, p.113

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• Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to reason, and how to ridicule; taking the utmost care never to apply those arts improperly.

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  Art, Giving, Mind

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• There is a sort of knowledge beyond the power of learning to bestow, and this is to be had in conversation; so necessary is this to the understanding the characters of men, that none are more ignorant of them than those learned pedants whose lives have been entirely consumed in colleges and among books; for however exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers the true practical system can be learned only in the world.

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  Book, Character, College

  Henry Fielding (1818). “Select Works of Henry Fielding Esq: To which is Prefaced an Original Account of the Life and Writings of the Author”, p.5

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• No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.

  Henry Fielding

  Distress, Highest

  Henry Fielding (2013). “The History of Tom Jones”, p.258, Simon and Schuster

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• Perhaps the summary of good-breeding may be reduced to this rule. "Behave unto all men as you would they should behave unto you." This will most certainly oblige us to treat all mankind with the utmost civility and respect, there being nothing that we desire more than to be treated so by them.

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  Men, Desire, May

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• However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.

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  World, May, Human Nature

  Henry Fielding (1836). “The history of Tom Jones: a foundling”, p.407

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• We should not be too hasty in bestowing either our praise or censure on mankind, since we shall often find such a mixture of good and evil in the same character, that it may require a very accurate judgment and a very elaborate inquiry to determine on which side the balance turns.

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  Character, Evil, Balance

  Henry Fielding, Thomas Roscoe (1853). “The Works of Henry Fielding, Complete in One Volume”, p.540

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• Domestic happiness is the end of almost all our pursuits, and the common reward of all our pains. When men find themselves forever barred from this delightful fruition, they are lost to all industry, and grow careless of all their worldly affairs. Thus they become bad subjects, bad relations, bad friends, and bad men.

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  Pain, Bad Friend, Men

  Henry Fielding (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Fielding (Illustrated)”, p.1840, Delphi Classics

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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.

  Henry Fielding

  Tea, Scandal, Cold

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• Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he hath injured you.

  Henry Fielding

  Trust, Men, Ethics

  "The Life of Jonathan Wild the Great".

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• When I mention religion I mean the Christian religion; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.

  Henry Fielding

  Christian, Mean, Religion

  'Tom Jones' (1749) bk. 3, ch. 3

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• I look upon the vulgar observation, 'That the devil often deserts his friends, and leaves them in the lurch,' to be a great abuse on that gentleman's character. Perhaps he may sometimes desert those who are only his cup acquaintance; or who, at most, are but half his; but he generally stands by those who are thoroughly his servants, and helps them off in all extremities, till their bargain expires.

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  Character, Gentleman, Abuse

  Henry Fielding (1975). “The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling”, p.933, Wesleyan University Press

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• He grew weary of this condescension, and began to treat the opinions of his wife with that haughtiuess and insolence, which none but those who deserve some contempt themselves can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.

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  Literature, Bears, Insolence

  "The Works of Henry Fielding: Complete in One Volume".

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• Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.

  Henry Fielding

  Animal, Men, Drink

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• Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.

  Henry Fielding

  Justice, Heaven, Leaving

  'Tom Jones' (1749) bk. 3, ch. 10

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