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Why should we fear; and what? The laws?
They all are armed in virtue's cause;
And aiming at the self-same end,
Satire is always virtue's friend.

— Charles Churchill The Ghost (1763)

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Be England what she will,
With all her faults she is my country still.

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And those who fear not guilt yet start at shame.

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He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.

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Not without art, but yet to Nature true.

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