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Who, with tame cowardice familiar grown, would hear my thoughts, but fear to speak their own.

Charles Churchill

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Charles Churchill
Died: 1764
Died: November 4
Poet
Writer
City of Westminster
Thoughts
Hear
Fear
Speak
Would
Tame
Cowardice
Grown
Familiar

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