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To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense.

~Charles Churchill

Topics: Beauty Copy Fame Faults Pretense Sense Want

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A joke's a very serious thing.

~Charles Churchill

Topics: Joke Serious Thing Very

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The best things carried to excess are wrong.

~Charles Churchill

Topics: Best Carried Excess Things Wrong

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Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.

~Charles Churchill

Topics: Authors Damn Envy Led Never Read Resentment Those Though Whim Whom

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Genius is independent of situation.

~Charles Churchill

Topics: Genius Independent Situation

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Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest.

~Charles Churchill

Topics: Brains Daily Digest Fit Know Little Matter Men Nightly Pains Phrases Range Reject Rest Thoughts Toil

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The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel.

~Charles Churchill

Topics: Acting Chiefly Crime Danger Daring Excel Great Lies Well

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Prudent dullness marked him for a mayor.

~Charles Churchill

Topics: Dullness Him Marked Mayor Prudent

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Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves.

~Charles Churchill

Topics: Feel Make Must Themselves Those Us Who Would

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Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still.

~Charles Churchill

Topics: Country England Faults Her She Still Will

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: Unknown

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