Thursday, December 13, 2007

Henry Fielding

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason. -Henry Fielding, author (1707-1754)

I can believe that this is often true, although I haven't had enough exposure to either great riches or great poverty to form my own opinion. I can imagine that someone in truly dire straights might choose a dangerous course that promised relief against all advice to the contrary. On the other side, I would have to suppose that if Fielding is right the cause of this rejection of reason must be pride.


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