Scurrility Quotes by Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

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• Words once spoken can never be recalled.
• I will not quarrel with a slight mistake, Such as our nature's frailty may excuse.
• Choose an author as you would a friend.
• Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense.
• ... truth shines brightest thro' the plainest dress.
• The press, the pulpit, and the stage, Conspire to censure and expose our age.
• Men still had faults, and men will have them still; He that hath none, and lives as angels do, Must be an…
• Pride (of all others the most dang'rous fault) Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought.
• Tis I that call, remember Milo's end, Wedged in that timber which he strove to rend.
• You must not think that a satiric style allows of scandalous and brutish words; the better sort abhor scurrility.
• We weep and laugh, as we see others do.
• What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.

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