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Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent Quotes

1709–1788

Robert Craggs-Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent, PC (1709 – 13 October 1788) was an Anglo-Irish politician and poet. He was tersely described by Richard Glover as a jovial and voluptuous Irishman who had left "Popery" for the Protestant religion, money and widows.

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Remote from liberty and truth,
By fortune's crime, my early youth
Drank error's poisoned springs.

Whoever would be pleased and please,
Must do what others do with ease.

Safer with multitudes to stray,
Than tread alone a fairer way:
To mingle with the erring throng,
Than boldly speak ten millions wrong.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.