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Henry Fielding

"The world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are."

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"The world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are."

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"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."

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"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."

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"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."

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"With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet."

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"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."

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"Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves."

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"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."

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"The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled."

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"One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures."

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