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The highest friendship must always lead us to the highest pleasure.
Henry Fielding
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Henry Fielding
Age: 47 †
Born: 1707
Born: April 22
Died: 1754
Died: October 8
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He that dies before sixty, of a cold or consumption, dies, in reality, by a violent death.
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