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I wear my Pen as others do their Sword.
To each affronting sot I meet, the word
Is Satisfaction: straight to thrusts I go,
And pointed satire runs him through and through.

— John Oldham Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)

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Curse on the man who business first designed,
And by't enthralled a freeborn lover's mind!

Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)

Altho' your frailer part must yield to Fate,
By every breach in that fair lodging made,
Its blest inhabitant is more displayed.

Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)

And should you visit now the seats of bliss,
You need not wear another form but this.

Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)

Lord of myself, accountable to none,
But to my conscience, and my God alone.

Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)

Ah, dearer than my soul…
Dearer than light, or life, or fame.

Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)

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