“Reader, I think proper, before we proceed any farther together, to acquaint thee that I intend to digress, through this whole history, as often as I see occasion, of which I am myself a better judge than any pitiful critic…”

—  Henry Fielding

Book I, Chapter 2
The History of Tom Jones (1749)

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