Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink.
Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink.
- Source
- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing)
Underwoods. An Epistle, answering to One that asked to be sealed of the Tribe of Ben.
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- attributed · historical anthology
Preserved as printed; independently unverified. - Historical coordinate
- c. 1605 AD · renaissance
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- Public domain (United States)
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Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.
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