"Choose an author as you would a friend." — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
"Choose an author as you would a friend."
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Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
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12 Quotes by Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
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Words once spoken can never be recalled.
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I will not quarrel with a slight mistake, Such as our nature's frailty may excuse.
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Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense.
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... truth shines brightest thro' the plainest dress.
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The press, the pulpit, and the stage, Conspire to censure and expose our age.
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Men still had faults, and men will have them still; He that hath none, and lives as angels do, Must…
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Pride (of all others the most dang'rous fault) Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought.
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Tis I that call, remember Milo's end, Wedged in that timber which he strove to rend.
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You must not think that a satiric style allows of scandalous and brutish words; the better sort abhor scurrility.
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We weep and laugh, as we see others do.
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What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.
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