# Quote — Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews

> I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.

- Author: [Henry Fielding](https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-fielding.md)
- Book: [Joseph Andrews](https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-fielding/joseph-andrews.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/henry-fielding/joseph-andrews/i-describe-not

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> A comic writer should of all others be the least excused for deviating from nature, since it may not be always so easy for a serious poet to meet with the great and the admirable; but life every where furnishes an accurate observer with the ridiculous.

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> Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.

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