"Where wealth accumulates, men decay."

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"On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting."

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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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