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Henry Fielding was a 18th-century English writer and judge. Henry Fielding was an English writer and judge known for the use of humour and satire in his works. His 1749 comic novel The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling was a seminal work in the genre. Read more on Wikipedia →

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“All Nature wears one universal grin.”
— Henry Fielding
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“For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Ki...”
— Henry Fielding
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“An author ought to consider himself, not as a gentleman who gives a private or eleemosynary treat, but rather as one who keeps a public ordinary, at which all persons are welcome for their money.”
— Henry Fielding
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“I have often wondered, Sir, [. . .] to observe so few Instances of Charity among Mankind; for tho' the Goodness of a Man's Heart did not incline him to relieve the Distresses of his Fellow-Creature...”
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“It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.”
— 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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