Fashion—a word which knaves and fools may use, Their knaver… - Charles Churchill

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Fashion—a word which knaves and fools may use,
Their knavery and folly to excuse.
To copy beauties, forfeits all pretence
To fame—to copy faults, is want of sense.

Charles Churchill

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Charles Churchill (February 1731 – November 4, 1764) was an English poet and satirist.

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A joke's a very serious thing.

So much they talked, so very little said.

When foes insult, and prudent friends dispense,
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Oft with thee, Lloyd, I steal an hour from grief,
And in thy social converse find relief.

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