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Fashion is the great governor of this world; it presides, not only in matters of dress and amusement, but in law, physic, politics, religion, and all other things of the gravest kind; indeed, the wisest of men would be puzzled to give any better reason why particular forms in all these have been at certain times universally received, and at others universally rejected, than that they were in or out of fashion.

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.

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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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Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason

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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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