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I have found it; I have discovered the cause of all the misfortunes which befell him. A public school, Joseph, was the cause of all the calamities which he afterwards suffered. Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

Source: Abraham Adams speaking of his host, Wilson, in Joseph Andrews, bk. 3, ch. 5, 1742.
-- Henry Fielding, (Apr 22 1707-1754), English novelist; He perfected the English novel in his masterpiece Tom Jones, 1749.

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