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Polite diseases make some idiots vain, Which, if unfortunately well, they feign.

Edward Young

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Vain
Disease
Wells
Feign
Well
Idiots
Make
Diseases
Polite
Unfortunately
Idiot

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