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Weak is that throne, and in itself unsound, Which takes not solid virtue for its ground.

Charles Churchill

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Charles Churchill
Died: 1764
Died: November 4
Poet
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City of Westminster
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Unsound
Throne
Thrones
Solid
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Virtue

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