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Where Young must torture his ...

Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.

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A forward critic often dupes ...

A forward critic often dupes us With sham quotations peri hupsos, And if we have not read Longinus, Will magisterially outshine us. Then, lest with Greek he over-run ye, Procure the book for love or money, Translated from Boileau's translation, And quote quotation on quotation.

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Liberty of conscience is nowa...

Liberty of conscience is nowadays only understood to be the liberty of believing what men please, but also of endeavoring to propagate that belief as much as they can.

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Tell truth, and shame the dev...

Tell truth, and shame the devil.

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Time is painted with a lock b...

Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is once past, there is no recalling it.

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Had Windham possessed discret...

Had Windham possessed discretion in debate, or Sheridan in conduct, they might have ruled their age.

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A footman may swear; but he c...

A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with equal delicacy, propriety, and judgment?

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Everybody wants to live forev...

Everybody wants to live forever, but nobody wants to grow old.

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For poetry, he's past his pri...

For poetry, he's past his prime,
He takes an hour to find a rhyme;
His fire is out, his wit decayed,
His fancy sunk, his muse a jade.
I'd have him throw away his pen,
But there's no talking to some men.

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Venus, a beautiful, good-natu...

Venus, a beautiful, good-natured lady, was the goddess of love; Juno, a terrible shrew, the goddess of marriage: and they were always mortal enemies.

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Fond of those hives where fol...

Fond of those hives where folly reigns, And cards and scandal are the chains, Where the pert virgin slights a name, And scorns to redden into shame.

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There is no vice or folly tha...

There is no vice or folly that requires so much nicety and skill to manage as vanity; nor any which by ill management makes so contemptible a figure.

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Satire, being levelled at all...

Satire, being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any.

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And, is not Virtue in Mankind...

And, is not Virtue in Mankind The Nutriment that feeds the Mind?

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I used to wonder how a man of...

I used to wonder how a man of birth and spirit could endure to be wholly insignificant and obscure in a foreign country, when he might live with lustre in his own.

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Old men and comets have been ...

Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.

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Seamen have a custom, when th...

Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent hands upon the ship.

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When dunces are satiric, I ta...

When dunces are satiric, I take it for a panegyric.

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An intelligent person should ...

An intelligent person should put money in the beginning, but not in heart

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Let a man be ne'er so wise, h...

Let a man be ne'er so wise, he may be caught with sober lies.

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