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Quotation from The Life of Mr Jonathan Wild the Great by Henry Fielding

“What a wolf is in a sheep-fold, a great man is in society”

Henry Fielding (spoken by A grave debtor in Newgate)

The Life of Mr Jonathan Wild the Great, Book IV, Ch. 3

The debtors, having helped Wild depose Roger Johnson, find themselves plundered again; their spokesman warns that changing masters changes nothing.

Citation: "What a wolf is in a sheep-fold, a great man is in society" — Henry Fielding, The Life of Mr Jonathan Wild the Great, Book IV, Ch. 3. (id fielding-jonathan-wild-q4)

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