| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 22070 |
| QUOTATION: | His designs were strictly honourable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Henry Fielding (17071754), British novelist, dramatist. Mrs. Fitzpatrick, in Tom Jones, bk. 11, ch. 4 (1749).
Of Mr. Fitzpatrick. |
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