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Every physician almost hath his favourite disease.
HENRY FIELDING, Tom Jones
No acquisitions of guilt can compensate the loss of that solid inward comfort of mind, which is the sure companion of innocence and virtue; nor can in the least balance the evil of that horror and anxiety which, in their room, guilt introduces into our bosoms.
HENRY FIELDING, Tom Jones
It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
All Nature wears one universal grin.
HENRY FIELDING, Tom Thumb the Great
Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.
HENRY FIELDING, Joseph Andrews
We must eat to live, and not live to eat.
HENRY FIELDING, The Miser
To whom nothing is given, of him can nothing be required.
HENRY FIELDING, Joseph Andrews
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, "The True Patriot"
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