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Contempt of others is the truest symptom of a base and bad heart,--while it suggests itself to the mean and the vile, and tickles there little fancy on every occasion, it never enters the great and good mind but on the strongest motives; nor is it then a welcome guest,--affording only an uneasy sensation, and bringing always with it a mixture of concern and compassion.

Henry Fielding
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Henry Fielding's Popular Quotes

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

- Henry Fielding

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

- Henry Fielding

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

- Henry Fielding

Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.

- Henry Fielding

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

- Henry Fielding

Success is a fruit of slow growth.

- Henry Fielding

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason

- Henry Fielding

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

- Henry Fielding

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

- Henry Fielding
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