Quote#Books & Reading
...the excellence of the mental entertainment consists less in the…
Quote byHenry Fielding · 1707–1754
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (1749), Book I, Chapter 1.
English (original)
...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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