More from Henry Fielding

  1. 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. Perh…
  2. 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 t…
  3. We must eat to live and live to eat.
  4. The only source of the true Ridiculous (as it appears to me) is affectation
  5. Lo, when two dogs are fighting in the streets, With a third dog one of the two dogs meets; With angry teeth he bites him to the bone, And t…
  6. It is a trite but true observation, that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts.
  7. Thy modesty 's a candle to thy merit.
  8. To whom nothing is given, of him can nothing be required.

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