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Nay, but weigh well what you presume to swear!
Oaths are of dreadful Weight—and, if they're false,
Draw down Damnation.
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When Anger rushes, unrestrain'd, to Action,
Like a hot Steed, it stumbles in its way!
The Man of Thought wounds deepest, and strikes safely.
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He lives to build, not boast, a generous race;
No tenth transmitter of a foolish face.
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May see thee now, though late, redeem thy name,
And glorify what else is damn'd to fame.
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Such, Polly, are your sex - part truth, part fiction; - Some thought, much whim and all a contradiction.
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Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'.
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Richard Savage
Born:
January 16, 1697
Died:
August 1, 1743
(aged 46)
Bio:
Richard Savage was an English poet. He is best known as the subject of Samuel Johnson's Life of Savage, on which is based one of the most elaborate of Johnson's Lives of the English Poets.
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