Quote#Books & Reading
A comic writer should of all others be the least excused for…
Quote byHenry Fielding · 1707–1754
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Joseph Andrews (1742), Author's Preface.
English (original)
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.
— Henry Fielding
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