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“A sede ensina a beber a todos os animais, mas a embriaguez só pertence ao homem.”
Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.
"The Covent - Garden Tragedy, Act I, Scene VII" in The Works of Henry Fielding: Complete in One Volume, with Memoir of the Author - Página 946 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=cXwoAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA946, de Henry Fielding, George Cruikshank, Thomas Roscoe - Publicado por H.G. Bohn, 1849 - 1116 páginas
Frases
Henry Fielding: Frases em inglês
“They are the affectation of affectation.”
Book III, Ch. 3
Joseph Andrews (1742)
“The only source of the true Ridiculous (as it appears to me) is affectation”
Author's Preface
Joseph Andrews (1742)
“Love and scandal are the best sweeteneers of tea.”
Act IV, sc. xi
Love in Several Masques (1728)
“It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.”
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“Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.”
Book IV, Ch. 6
Joseph Andrews (1742)
“Money is the fruit of evil as often as the root of it.”
Don Quixote in England (1731), Act I, scene vi http://books.google.com/books?id=8_VbAAAAQAAJ&q=%22Money+is+the+fruit+of+evil+as+often+as+the+root+of+it%22&pg=PA13#v=onepage
“I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.”
Book III, Ch. 1
Joseph Andrews (1742)
“No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.”
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Fielding, Henry; ed. by William Ernest Henley. 1903. The Complete Works of Henry Fielding, Esq: Miscellaneous writings. W. Heinemann. p. 162
“Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.”
Book III, ch. 11
Amelia (1751)
Abraham Adams, speaking of his host, Wilson.
Book III, Ch. 5
Joseph Andrews (1742)
“To whom nothing is given, of him can nothing be required.”
Book II, Ch. 8
Joseph Andrews (1742)
Book V, Ch. 10
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“Oh, the roast beef of England,
And old England's roast beef!”
The Grub Street Opera (1731), Act iii, scene 2; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Oons, sir! do you say that I am drunk? I say, sir, that I am as sober as a judge.”
Don Quixote in England (1731), Act III, scene xiv
“One fool at least in every married couple.”
Book IX, ch. 4
Amelia (1751)
“This story will not go down.”
Tumble-down Dick; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things?”
Book IV, Ch. 4
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Book I, Chapter 1
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“When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.”
Book XV, Ch. 2
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Book V, ch. 1
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Book I, Chapter 1
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