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Quotation by Charles Churchill
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Little do such men know the toil, the pains,
The daily, nightly racking of the brains,
To range the thoughts, the matter to digest,
To cull fit phrases, and reject the rest.
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Charles Churchill
Charles Churchill (1731–1764), British clergyman, poet. Gotham, bk. 2, l. 11 (1764).
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