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The best things carried to excess are wrong.
Charles Churchill
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Charles Churchill
Died: 1764
Died: November 4
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City of Westminster
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Who, with tame cowardice familiar grown, would hear my thoughts, but fear to speak their own.
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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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Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
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Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools.
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Though folly, robed in purple, shines, Though vice exhausts Peruvian mines, Yet shall they tremble and turn pale When satire wields her mighty flail.
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Man and wife, Coupled together for the sake of strife.
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Old Age, a second child, by nature curst With more and greater evils than the first, Weak, sickly, full of pains: in ev'ry breath Railing at life, and yet afraid of death.
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Weak is that throne, and in itself unsound, Which takes not solid virtue for its ground.
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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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