People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
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Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray.
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Forc'd from their homes, a melancholy train, To traverse climes beyond the western main Where wild Oswego spreads her swamps around, And Niagara stuns with thundering sound.
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Good people all, with one accord, Lament for Madam Blaize, Who never wanted a good word From those who spoke her praise.
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