"Through thick and thin."
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Samuel Butler, Hudibras, Part I (1663-64), Canto II, line 370; reported as a proverb in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 642. Cowper, John Gilpin. Drayton, Nymphidia. Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, Part II, line 414. Kemp, Nine Days' Wonder. Middleton, The Roaring Girl (1611), Act IV, scene 2. Alexander Pope, The Dunciad, Book II.
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Samuel Butler (poet)
Samuel Butler (February 8 1612 β September 25 1680) was an English satirical poet.
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