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Wishing of all employments is the worst

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
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Wishing
Employment
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Who combats with a brother, wounds himself.
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One to destroy, is murder by the law and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.
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Who gives an empire, by the gift defeats All end of giving and procures contempt Instead of gratitude.
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