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Paul Whitehead

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Paul Whitehead (6 February 1710 – 20 December 1774) was a British satirist and a secretary to the infamous Hellfire Club.

Quotes

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  • With the sports of the field there's no pleasure can vie,
    While jocund we follow our hounds in full cry.
    • "Hunting Song", in Apollo and Daphne (1734, or later)
  • Fond of your freedom spurn the venal fee,
    And prove he's only great—who dares to be free.
    • Manners (1739), l. 21; 2nd ed. (1748):
      Fond of your freedom, spurn at the venal fee,
      And prove he's only great—who dares be free.
  • Honour’s a mistress all mankind pursue,
    Yet most mistake the false one for the true:
    Lur’d by the trappings, dazzled by the paint,
    We worship oft the idol for the saint.
    • Honour (1747), l. 105
  • Why, praise is satire in these sinful days.
    • Honour (1747), l. 215
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