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Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.

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Charles Churchill
Died: 1764
Died: November 4
Poet
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City of Westminster
Though
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Whim
Never
Authors
Resentment
Envy
Damn
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Man and wife, Coupled together for the sake of strife.
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No two on earth in all things can agree All have some darling singularity Women and men, as well as girls and boys, In gewgaws take delight, and sigh for toys, Your sceptres and your crowns, and such like things, Are but a better kind of toys for kings. In things indifferent reason bids us choose, Whether the whim's a monkey or a muse.
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The Scots are poor, cries surly English pride True is the charge, nor by themselves denied. Are they not then in strictest reason clear, Who wisely come to mend their fortunes here?
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Be England what she will, With all her faults she is my country still.
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Who, with tame cowardice familiar grown, would hear my thoughts, but fear to speak their own.
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Truth! why shall every wretch of letters Dare to speak truth against his betters! Let ragged virtue stand aloof, Nor mutter accents of reproof Let ragged wit a mute become, When wealth and power would have her dumb.
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