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Quotation from The Life of Mr Jonathan Wild the Great by Henry Fielding
“he must be a fool who is ashamed of being hanged, who is not weak enough to be ashamed of having deserved it”
The Life of Mr Jonathan Wild the Great, Book IV, Ch. 14
The narrator's mock consolation after Wild's hanging turns the shame of the gallows back on the deeds that earned it.
Citation: "he must be a fool who is ashamed of being hanged, who is not weak enough to be ashamed of having deserved it" — Henry Fielding, The Life of Mr Jonathan Wild the Great, Book IV, Ch. 14. (id fielding-jonathan-wild-q7)
