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He that's ungrateful has no guilt but one All other crimes may pass for virtues in him.

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Virtues
Guilt
Pass
Crime
Virtue
Ingratitude
May
Ungrateful
Crimes

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