“Why should we fear; and what? The laws?
They all are armed in virtue's cause;
And aiming at the self-same end,
Satire is always virtue's friend.”

—  Charles Churchill (satirist)

Book III, line 943
The Ghost (1763)

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British poet 1731–1764

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