Quote#World
In reality, the world have payed too great a compliment to critics,…
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 V, ch. 1.
English (original)
In reality, the world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.
— Henry Fielding
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