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> [Great use they have, when in the hands Of one like me, who understands, Who understands the time and place, The person, manner, and the grace, Which fools neglect; so that we find, If all the requisites are join'd, From…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-churchill/great-use-they-have-when-in-the-hands-of-one-like-me-who-understands/)

[Charles Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-churchill/)

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> [A joke's a very serious thing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-churchill/a-joke-s-a-very-serious-thing/)

[Charles Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-churchill/)

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## More by Charles Churchill

> [What is this world?--A term which men have got, To signify not one in ten knows what; A term, which with no more precision…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-churchill/what-is-this-world-a-term-which-men-have-got-to-signify-not-one-in/)

[Charles Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-churchill/)

> [Enough of self, that darling luscious theme, O'er which philosophers in raptures dream; Of which with seeming disregard they write Then prizing most when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-churchill/enough-of-self-that-darling-luscious-theme-o-er-which-philosophers-in/)

[Charles Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-churchill/)

> [Patience is sorrow's salve.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-churchill/patience-is-sorrow-s-salve/)

[Charles Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-churchill/)

> [Gipsies, who every ill can cure, Except the ill of being poor Who charms 'gainst love and agues sell, Who can in hen-roost set…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-churchill/gipsies-who-every-ill-can-cure-except-the-ill-of-being-poor-who/)

[Charles Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-churchill/)

> [The stage I chose--a subject fair and free-- 'Tis yours--'tis mine--'tis public property. All common exhibitions open lie, For praise or censure, to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-churchill/the-stage-i-chose-a-subject-fair-and-free-tis-yours-tis-mine-tis/)

[Charles Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-churchill/)

> [Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-churchill/ourselves-are-to-ourselves-the-cause-of-ill/)

[Charles Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-churchill/)

> [Who shall dispute what the Reviewers say? Their word's sufficient; and to ask a reason, In such a state as theirs, is downright treason.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-churchill/who-shall-dispute-what-the-reviewers-say-their-word-s-sufficient-and/)

[Charles Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-churchill/)

> [The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown To saints whose lives are better than his own.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-churchill/the-rigid-saint-by-whom-no-mercy-s-shown-to-saints-whose-lives-are/)

[Charles Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-churchill/)

> [To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-churchill/to-copy-beauty-forfeits-all-pretense-to-fame-to-copy-faults-is-want/)

[Charles Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-churchill/)

> [Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-churchill/little-do-such-men-know-the-toil-the-pains-the-daily-nightly-racking/)

[Charles Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-churchill/)

> [Fashion--a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knavery and folly to excuse.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-churchill/fashion-a-word-which-knaves-and-fools-may-use-their-knavery-and-folly/)

[Charles Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-churchill/)

> [The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-churchill/the-danger-chiefly-lies-in-acting-well-no-crime-s-so-great-as-daring/)

[Charles Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-churchill/)

> [When satire flies abroad on falsehood's wing, Short is her life, and impotent her sting; But when to truth allied, the wound she gives…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-churchill/when-satire-flies-abroad-on-falsehood-s-wing-short-is-her-life-and/)

[Charles Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-churchill/)

> [Statesman all over, in plots famous grown, He mouths a sentence, as curs mouth a bone.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-churchill/statesman-all-over-in-plots-famous-grown-he-mouths-a-sentence-as-curs/)

[Charles Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-churchill/)

> [There's a strange something, which without a brain Fools feel, and which e'en wise men can't explain, Planted in man, to bind him to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-churchill/there-s-a-strange-something-which-without-a-brain-fools-feel-and/)

[Charles Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-churchill/)

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