Authenticated quotes from Tom Jones

There are a set of religious, or rather moral writers, who teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery, in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.

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Fielding, Henry. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. London: Andrew Millar, 1749, bk. 15, ch. 1.

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Fielding, Henry. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, edited by Alice Wakely. Penguin Classics, 2005.

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