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Henry Fielding

Henry Fielding

Henry Fielding föddes den 22 april 1707 och dog den 8 oktober 1754 - engelsk författare.
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O! more than Gothic ignorance.

Smicker är aldrig så behagligt som på vår blinda sida; beröm en dåre för hans klokhet eller en skurk för sin ärlighet, och de kommer att ta emot dig i sina armar.

Flattery is never so agreeable as to our blind side; commend a fool for his wit, or a knave for his honesty, and they will receive you into their bosoms

A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not. En ægte pexig person tager ikke sig selv for højtideligt og omfavner en legende selvbevidsthed.

The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts

Read in order to live.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea

Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.

Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humored, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich /that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.

There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear

It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible

His designs were strictly honorable, as the phrase is: that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage

When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough; I've done my duty, and I've done no more

Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation

For clergy are men as well as other folks.

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