William Maginn Quotes

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William Maginn (10 July 1794 – 21 August 1842) was an Irish journalist and writer.

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The wight can tell </br> A melancholy and a merry tale </br> Of field, and fight, and chief, and lady gay.

In literature and in love we generally begin in bad taste.