Not who you're looking for? Others named Henry Fielding: English novelist and dramatist (1707–1754)
“Money is the fruit of evil as often as the root of it.”
“Love and scandal are the best sweeteneers of tea.”
“They are the affectation of affectation.”
“Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.”
“To speak a bold truth, I am, after much mature deliberation, inclined to suspect that the public voice hath, in all ages, done much injustice to Fortune, and hath convicted her of many facts in which she had not the least concern.”
“There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.”
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