| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 22058 |
| QUOTATION: | I have found it; I have discovered the cause of all the misfortunes which befell him. A public school, Joseph, was the cause of all the calamaties which he afterwards suffered. Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Henry Fielding (1707–1754), British novelist, dramatist. Abraham Adams, in Joseph Andrews, bk. 3, ch. 5 (1742).
Speaking of his host, Wilson. |
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