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Satire recoils whenever charged too high; round your own fame the fatal splinters fly.

Edward Young
Splinters, Fame, Satire
Edward Young, Sir Herbert Croft, Sir Herbert Croft (5th bart), Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Edward Young ...”, p.222
Satire recoils whenever charged too high; round your own fame the fatal splinters fly.