76 ordspråk av Henry Fielding
Henry Fielding
Every physician almost hath his favourite disease.
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Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
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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
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For clergy are men as well as other folks.
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George was a great dunce, but no matter for that: all men do not thrive in the world according to their learning
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Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue
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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation
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He in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him.
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He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the later
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His designs were strictly honorable, as the phrase is: that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage
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I am as sober as a judge.
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I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.
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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.
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If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.
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It has often been said that it is not death but dying that is terrible.
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