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"The Expedition of Humphry Clinker" Quotes
"The Expedition of Humphry Clinker" by Tobias Smollett is a humorous epistolary novel that follows the adventures and social observations of a motley group traveling across 18th-century Britain.
Quotes
The world is a great stage of imposture, and he who does not act his part well is exposed to all the contempt and ridicule that can be heaped upon him.
Every man of taste and learning is ambitious of associating with his equals.
The desire of applause is implanted in the human breast as an incentive to virtue.
When a man has been accustomed to misfortune, he can bear it with fortitude.
There is no greater satisfaction than that which arises from a consciousness of having done our duty.
Pride and ill-nature will be the ruin of many a fair reputation.
He that is void of sympathy is a brute, and he that does not exercise it when he has an opportunity is worse than a brute.
The mind is never so sensibly disposed to pity as when it is under the pressure of affliction.
A man of letters must be a man of the world to write to the taste of the world.
True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and, in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
