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  • 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.

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    Henry Fielding (1820). “The history of the adventures of Joseph Andrews, and his friend, Mr. Abraham Adams: Written in imitation of the manner of Cervantes ...”, p.3
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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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