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the excellence of the mental entertainment consists less in the subject than in the author's skill in well dressing it up.
Henry Fielding
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Henry Fielding
Age: 47 †
Born: 1707
Born: April 22
Died: 1754
Died: October 8
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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 Kind, we give and demand in Turn.
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Some general officers should pay a stricter regard to truth than to call the depopulating other countries the service of their own.
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