Henry Fielding (April 22, 1707-October 8, 1754) was an English novelist, dramatist and playwright. His satirical comedies offended the Whig premier, Sir John Walpole, and he was pressured to abandon the stage. He turned to law, became a magistrate, 1748, and helped organize an early police force named the Bow Street Runners. Henry Fielding's greatest novels include: Joseph Andrews, 1742; Jonathan Wild, 1743; Tom Jones, 1749; Amelia, 1752 and Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon, written shortly before his death.
In Joseph Andrews, book III, chapter 5, Henry Fielding stated:
<Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.> 1707HF001
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1707HF001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Henry Fielding, 1742, in Joseph Andrews, book III, chapter 5. John Bartlett, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1855, 1980), p. 349.