Quote #31
And ever since the Conquest have been fools.
More from John, 2nd Earl of Rochester Wilmot
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- For Wits are treated just like Common Whores; First they're enjoy'd, and then kickt out of Doors.
- Then Old Age, and Experience, hand in hand, Lead him to death, and make him understand, After a Search so painful, and so long, That all hi…
- Whilst the misguided Follower climbs with Pain, Mountains of Whimsies, heapt in his own Brain, Stumbling from Thought to Thought, falls hea…
- Reason, an Ignis fatuus of the Mind, Which leaves the light of Nature, Sense, behind.