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• A broken heart is a distemper which kills many more than is generally imagined, and would have a fair title to a place in the bills of mortality, did it not differ in one instance from all other diseases, namely, that no physicians can cure it.

  Henry Fielding

  Heart, Broken, Despair

  Henry Fielding (1882). “The Works of Henry Fielding, Esq: Henry Fielding, by Leslie Stephen. The history of Tom Jones, a foundling”

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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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• Prudence is a duty which we owe ourselves, and if we will be so much our own enemies as to neglect it, we are not to wonder if the world is deficient in discharging their duty to us; for when a man lays the foundation of his own ruin, others too often are apt to build upon it.

  Henry Fielding

  Men, Enemy, Foundation

  Henry Fielding (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Fielding (Illustrated)”, p.1413, Delphi Classics

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• Fashion is the great governor of this world; it presides, not only in matters of dress and amusement, but in law, physic, politics, religion, and all other things of the gravest kind; indeed, the wisest of men would be puzzled to give any better reason why particular forms in all these have been at certain times universally received, and at others universally rejected, than that they were in or out of fashion.

  Henry Fielding

  Fashion, Men, Law

  Henry Fielding, Thomas Roscoe (1851). “The Works of Henry Fielding: Complete in One Volume”, p.664

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

  Henry Fielding

  Eye, Nine, Lasts

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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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• There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired
  with a love of justice against offenders.

  Henry Fielding

  Justice, Inspired, Zeal

  Henry Fielding (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Fielding (Illustrated)”, p.692, Delphi Classics

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• In the forming of female friendships beauty seldom recommends one woman to another.

  Henry Fielding

  Beauty, Female, Female Friendship

  Henry Fielding (1783). “The Beauties of Fielding. Carefully Selected ... To which is Added Some Account of His Life”, p.21

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• I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.

  Henry Fielding

  Men, Literature, Individual

  'Joseph Andrews' (1742) bk. 3, ch. 1

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• All nature wears one universal grin.

  Henry Fielding

  Nature, Science, Garden

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

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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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• In a debate, rather pull to pieces the argument of thy antagonists than offer him any of thy own; for thus thou wilt fight him in his own country.

  Henry Fielding

  Country, Fighting, Pieces

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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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• 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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• Penny saved is a penny got.

  Henry Fielding

  Pennies, Saved

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

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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.

  Henry Fielding

  Character, Gentleman, Abuse

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

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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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• 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.

  Henry Fielding

  Men, Desire, May

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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.

  Henry Fielding

  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.

  Henry Fielding

  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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• Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.

  Henry Fielding

  Reality, Men, Criticism

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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.

  Henry Fielding

  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.

  Henry Fielding

  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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