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"All Nature wears one universal grin."
Henry Fielding / Tom Thumb the Great. Act i. Sc. 1.
Tom Thumb the Great. Act i. Sc. 1.
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"Petition me no petitions, sir, to-day; Let other hours be set apart for business. To-day it is our pleasure to be drunk; And this our queen shall be as drunk as we."
Henry Fielding / Tom Thumb the Great. Act i. Sc. 2.
Tom Thumb the Great. Act i. Sc. 2.
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"When I 'm not thank'd at all, I 'm thank'd enough; I 've done my duty, and I 've done no more."
Henry Fielding / Tom Thumb the Great. Act i. Sc. 3.
Tom Thumb the Great. Act i. Sc. 3.
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"Thy modesty 's a candle to thy merit."
Henry Fielding / Tom Thumb the Great. Act i. Sc. 3.
Tom Thumb the Great. Act i. Sc. 3.
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"To sun myself in Huncamunca's eyes."
Henry Fielding / Tom Thumb the Great. Act i. Sc. 3.
Tom Thumb the Great. Act i. Sc. 3.
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"Lo, when two dogs are fighting in the streets, With a third dog one of the two dogs meets; With angry teeth he bites him to the bone, And this dog smarts for what that dog has done."
Henry Fielding / Tom Thumb the Great. Act i. Sc. 6.
Tom Thumb the Great. Act i. Sc. 6.
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"I am as sober as a judge."
Henry Fielding / Don Quixote in England. Act iii. Sc. 14.
Don Quixote in England. Act iii. Sc. 14.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Enough is equal to a feast."
Henry Fielding / The Covent Garden Tragedy. Act v. Sc. 1.
The Covent Garden Tragedy. Act v. Sc. 1.
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"We must eat to live and live to eat."
Henry Fielding / The Miser. Act iii. Sc. 3.
The Miser. Act iii. Sc. 3.
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"Penny saved is a penny got."
Henry Fielding / The Miser. Act iii. Sc. 12.
The Miser. Act iii. Sc. 12.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Oh, the roast beef of England, And old England's roast beef!"
Henry Fielding / The Grub Street Opera. Act iii. Sc. 2.
The Grub Street Opera. Act iii. Sc. 2.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"This story will not go down."
Henry Fielding / Tumble-down Dick.
Tumble-down Dick.
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"Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things?"
Henry Fielding / Tom Jones. Book iv. Chap. iv.
Tom Jones. Book iv. Chap. iv.
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"Distinction without a difference."
Henry Fielding / Tom Jones. Book vi. Chap. xiii.
Tom Jones. Book vi. Chap. xiii.
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"Republic of letters."
Henry Fielding / Tom Jones. Book xiv. Chap. i.
Tom Jones. Book xiv. Chap. i.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain