Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
Charles Churchill
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Genius is independent of situation.
Half-starved spiders prey'd on half-starved flies.
He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.
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.
Prudent dullness marked him for a mayor.
The best things carried to excess are wrong.
The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel.
Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
Who often, but without success, have prayed for apt Alliteration's artful aid.
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