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Necessity is a bad recommendation to favors of any kind, which as seldom fall to those who really want them, as to those who really deserve them.
Necessity is a bad recommendation to favors of any kind, which as seldom fall to those who really want them, as to those who really deserve them.
Approximate author period: c. 1730 AD · early modern
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- Henry Fielding
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- Approximate author period: c. 1730 AD · early modern
author lifetime midpoint (1707–1754)
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- Pearls of Thought (1881) (1881 AD)
Page 183 · printed citation: Fielding · subject: Necessity
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