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The best things carried to excess are wrong.

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Charles Churchill
Died: 1764
Died: November 4
Poet
Writer
City of Westminster
Best
Things
Excess
Carried
Wrong

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Be England what she will, With all her faults she is my country still.
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By different methods different men excel, but where is he who can do all things well?
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Tis mighty easy o'er a glass of wine On vain refinements vainly to refine, To laugh at poverty in plenty's reign, To boast of apathy when out of pain, And in each sentence, worthy of the schools, Varnish'd with sophistry, to deal out rules Most fit for practice, but for one poor fault That into practice they can ne'er be brought.
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Genius is of no country her pure ray Spreads all abroad, as general as the day.
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Man and wife, Coupled together for the sake of strife.
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Who, with tame cowardice familiar grown, would hear my thoughts, but fear to speak their own.
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