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What caricature is in painting, burlesque is in writing; and in the same manner the comic writer and painter correlate to each other; as in the former, the painter seems to have the advantage, so it is in the latter infinitely on the side of the writer. For the monstrous is much easier to paint than describe, and the ridiculous to describe than paint.

Henry Fielding
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Henry Fielding's Popular Quotes

We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.

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

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Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.

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Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.

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Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

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Success is a fruit of slow growth.

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When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason

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We endeavor to conceal our vices under the disguise of the opposite virtues.

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