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Quotation from The Life of Mr Jonathan Wild the Great by Henry Fielding
“greatness consists in bringing all manner of mischief on mankind, and goodness in removing it from them”
The Life of Mr Jonathan Wild the Great, Book I, Ch. 1
The narrator's opening distinction, offered as a principle of biography, which the rest of the book applies to Wild with a straight face.
Citation: "greatness consists in bringing all manner of mischief on mankind, and goodness in removing it from them" — Henry Fielding, The Life of Mr Jonathan Wild the Great, Book I, Ch. 1. (id fielding-jonathan-wild-q1)
