Quote#Truth
To speak a bold truth, I am, after much mature deliberation, inclined…
Quote byHenry Fielding · 1707–1754
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Amelia (1751), Book I, Ch. 1.
English (original)
To speak a bold truth, I am, after much mature deliberation, inclined to suspect that the public voice hath, in all ages, done much injustice to Fortune, and hath convicted her of many facts in which she had not the least concern.
— Henry Fielding
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