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In an orchard there should be enough to eat, enough to lay up, enough to be stolen, and enough to rot upon the ground.

Samuel Madden

Some write their wrongs in marble: he more just,
Stoop'd down serene and wrote them in the dust,—
Trod under foot, the sport of every wind,
Swept from the earth and blotted from his mind.
There, secret in the grave, he bade them lie,
And grieved they could not 'scape the Almighty eye.

Samuel Madden

Samuel Madden

Samuel Madden

Born: 1686

Died: 1765 (aged 79)

Bio: Samuel Madden was an Irish author. His works include Themistocles; The Lover of His Country, Reflections and Resolutions Proper for the Gentlemen of Ireland, and Memoirs of the Twentieth Century. Dr.

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