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A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.

A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World!

Conscience - the only incorruptible thing about us.

Henry Fielding

Conscience

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.

Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.

Henry Fielding

Envy

Worth

All nature wears one universal grin.

Henry Fielding

Nature

Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.

Henry Fielding

Adversity

Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

Where the law ends tyranny begins.

Henry Fielding

Law

Tyranny

When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough, I've done my duty, and I've done no more.

Henry Fielding

Duty

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Henry Fielding

Children

Nothing

What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.

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

Henry Fielding

Books