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Quotation from The Life of Mr Jonathan Wild the Great by Henry Fielding
“That virtues, like precious stones, were easily counterfeited; that the counterfeits in both cases adorned the wearer equally”
The Life of Mr Jonathan Wild the Great, Book IV, Ch. 15
One of the maxims found in Wild's study; the jewel image recalls the jeweller Heartfree, whose real stones Wild stole.
Citation: "That virtues, like precious stones, were easily counterfeited; that the counterfeits in both cases adorned the wearer equally" — Henry Fielding, The Life of Mr Jonathan Wild the Great, Book IV, Ch. 15. (id fielding-jonathan-wild-q8)
