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Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools.

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Charles Churchill
Died: 1764
Died: November 4
Poet
Writer
City of Westminster
Nature
Made
Wits
Fools
Wit
Fool
Drink
Though

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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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