52 Quotations by Henry Fielding
- 41. There is nothing a man of good sense dreads in a wife so much as her having more sense than himself.

- 42. There's one fool at least in every married couple.

- 43. Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to Heaven.

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

- 45. What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.

- 46. When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

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

- 48. When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager that the man, if not ...

- 49. Where the law ends tyranny begins.

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

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

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

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