76 ordspråk av Henry Fielding

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Henry Fielding föddes den April 22nd 1707 och dog den 8 October 1754 - English writer
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 Read in order to live.

 Read in order to live.

 Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.

 Since I have dealt in suds, I could never discover more than two reasons for shaving; the one is to get a beard, the other is to get rid of one

 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.

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

 The characteristic of coquettes is affectation governed by whim

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

 The hounds all join in glorious cry, / The huntsman winds his horn: / And a-hunting we will go.

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

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

 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.

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

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

 There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than himself.


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