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Whose yesterdays look backwards with a smile.

Edward Young

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Edward Young
Died: 1765
Died: April 5
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Upham
Hampshire
Whose
Look
Looks
Yesterdays
Backwards
Yesterday
Smile

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A man I knew who lived upon a smile, And well it fed him he look'd plump and fair, While rankest venom foam'd through every vein.
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A dedication is a wooden leg.
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What most we wish, with ease we fancy near.
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As night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.
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The man that blushes is not quite a brute.
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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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It is great and manly to disdain disguise it shows our spirit and proves our strength.
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