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Henry Fielding
Age: 47 †
Born: 1707
Born: April 22
Died: 1754
Died: October 8
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A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.
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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.
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What's vice today may be virtue, tomorrow.
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Worth begets in base minds, envy in great souls, emulation.
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Considering the unforeseen events of this world, we should be taught that no human condition should inspire men with absolute despair.
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