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Excerpt from The Works of Henry Fielding, Esq., Vol. 1 of 11: With an Essay on His Life and Genius
J But it was against hypocrisy his satiric ridicule was studiously directed: for hypocrisy was in the eyes of Fielding, as his own words declare, The most cunning as well as malicious of all the vices which have ever corrupted the nature of man.' His good intentions may also be seen in his Essay on Conversation, where he says that his design was to ridicule out of society one of the most pernicious evils which attends it, namely, pampering the gross appetites of selfishness and ill-nature with the shame and disquietude of others, whereas, ' he continues, L' I have endeavoured in it to show that true good-breeding consists in contributing with our utmost power to the satisfaction and happiness of all around us.'
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