Sarah Fielding Quotes

Sarah Fielding was an English author and sister of the novelist Henry Fielding. She wrote The Governess, or The Little Female Academy , thought to be the first novel in English aimed expressly at children. Earlier she had success with her novel The Adventures of David Simple . Wikipedia

✵ 8. November 1710 – 9. April 1768

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Sarah Fielding Quotes

“The first place he went into was the Royal Exchange, …. where men of all ages and all nations were assembled, with no other view than to barter for interest. … David … resolved to stay no longer in a place where riches were esteemed goodness, and deceit, low cunning, and giving up all things to the love of gain were thought wisdom.”

The Adventures of David Simple, bk. 1, ch. 4 (1744), pp. 24-26

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