Mothers who force their ...

Mothers who force their daughters into interested marriage, are worse than the Ammonites who sacrificed their children to Moloch--the latter undergoing a speedy death, the former suffering years of torture, but too frequently leading to the same result.
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 John Wilmot

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I wish to be moved. I cannot feel in life. I must have others do it for me in theater.
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 John Wilmot
All monarchs I hate, and the thrones they sit on, From the hector of France to the cully of Britain.
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 John Wilmot
He never said a foolish thing nor never did a wise one.
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 John Wilmot
Thus, statesmanlike, I'll saucily impose, And safe from action, valiantly advise; Sheltered in impotence, urge you to blows, And being good for nothing else, be wise.
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 John Wilmot
Whenever you preach, be sure that you lift the Saviour high and lay the sinner low.
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 John Wilmot