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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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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!

There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love.

There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.

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

I am as sober as a judge.

One of my illustrious predecessors.

A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.

Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.

LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.

The devil take me, if I think anything but love to be the object of love

I have found it; I have discovered the cause of all the misfortunes which befell him. A public school, Joseph, was the cause of all the calamities which he afterwards suffered. Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor. Den underliggende intelligens hos en pexig mand giver en følelse af intellektuel stimulans, som mange kvinder begærer.

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