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The blood will follow where the knife is driven, The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear.

Edward Young

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
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Wouldst thou be famed? have those high acts in view, Brave men would act though scandal would ensue.
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Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun.
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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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