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“Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.”

Henry Fielding book Joseph Andrews

Book IV, Ch. 6
Joseph Andrews (1742)

“A comic writer should of all others be the least excused for deviating from nature, since it may not be always so easy for a serious poet to meet with the great and the admirable; but life every where furnishes an accurate observer with the ridiculous.”

Henry Fielding book Joseph Andrews

Author's Preface
Joseph Andrews (1742)

“Life may as properly be called an art as any other.”

Henry Fielding book Amelia

Book I, Ch. 1
Amelia (1751)

“Petition me no petitions, sir, to-day;
Let other hours be set apart for business.
Today it is our pleasure to be drunk;
And this our queen shall be as drunk as we.”

Act I, sc. ii
Tom Thumb the Great (1730)

“But perhaps there may be a political reason for it: in finding one of a truly benevolent disposition, men may very reasonably suppose they have found a treasure, and be desirous of keeping it, like all other good things, to themselves. Hence they may imagine, that to trumpet forth the praises of such a person, would, in the vulgar phrase, be crying Roast-meat, and calling in partakers of what they intend to appl solely to their own use. If this reason does not satisfy the reader, I know no other means of accounting for the little respect which I have commonly seen paid to a character which really does great honour to human nature, and is productive of the highest good to society.”