Quote by Henry Fielding
Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to Heaven. - Hen

Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to Heaven. – Henry Fielding

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

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He in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him. – Henry Fielding

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Distance of time and place generally cure what they seem to aggravate; and taking leave of our friends resembles taking leave of the world, of which it has been said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible. – Henry Fielding

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If your buttocks burn, you know you have done wrong. – African Proverb

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When God punishes a land, he deprives it leaders of wisdom. – Italian Proverb

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Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one. – Ellen Key

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It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace. – Pierre Corneille

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