Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest.

Quote by Charles Churchill

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To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense

To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense

Statesman all over, in plots famous grown, He mouths a sentence, as curs mouth a...

Statesman all over, in plots famous grown, He mouths a sentence, as curs mouth a...

Prudent dullness marked him for a mayor.

Prudent dullness marked him for a mayor.

Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the...

Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the...

Genius is of no country.

Genius is of no country.

Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves.

Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves.

Genius is of no country; her pure ray / Spreads all abroad, as general as...

Genius is of no country; her pure ray / Spreads all abroad, as general as...

Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.

Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.

It can't be Nature, for it is not sense.

It can't be Nature, for it is not sense.

The best things carried to excess are wrong.

The best things carried to excess are wrong.

The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel.

The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel.

Genius is independent of situation.

Genius is independent of situation.

Patience is sorrow's salve.

Patience is sorrow's salve.

Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

Genius is nothing more than inflamed enthusiasm.

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

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