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Vote: | Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter. |
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Vote: | Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth. |
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Vote: | Reason gains all people by compelling none. |
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Vote: | Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme. |
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Aaron Hill (February 10, 1685 - February 8, 1750) was an English dramatist and miscellaneous writer.
The son of a country gentleman of Wiltshire, Hill was educated at Westminster School, and
afterwards travelled in the East. He was the author of 17 plays, some of them, such as his versions of Voltaire's Zaire and Merope, being adaptations. He also wrote poetry, which is of variable quality. Having written some satiric lines on Alexander Pope, he received in return a mention in The Dunciad, which led to a controversy between the two writers. Afterwards a reconciliation took place. He was a friend and
correspondent of Samuel Richardson, whose Pamela he highly praised. In addition to his literary pursuits Hill was involved in many commercial schemes, usually unsuccessful.
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