A Quote by Charles Churchill

Gipsies, who every ill can cure, Except the ill of being poor Who charms 'gainst love and agues sell, Who can in hen-roost set a spell, Prepar'd by arts, to them best known To catch all feet except their own, Who, as to fortune, can unlock it, As easily as pick a pocket.

Charles Churchill

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Charles Churchill
English - Poet
1732 - November 4, 1764

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Mahatma Gandhi

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Hesiod

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Mary Cantwell

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It is as bad as bad can be: it is ill-fed, ill-killed, ill-kept, and ill-drest.

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Above all, we shall wage no more unilateral, ill-planned, ill-considered, and ill-prepared invasions of foreign countries that pose no actual threat to our security.