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Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories.
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For all men would be cowards if they durst.
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Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.
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Man differs more from Man, than Man from Beast.
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I shall never forgive you for teaching me how to love life.
- John Wilmot
Collection: Teaching
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I have to speak my mind. Because what is in my mind is always more interesting than what is happening in the world outside my mind.
- John Wilmot
Collection: Interesting
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Love's chemistry thrives best in equal heat.
- John Wilmot
Collection: Heat
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God bless our good and gracious King, Whose promise none relies on; Who never said a foolish thing, Nor ever did a wise one.
- John Wilmot
Collection: Wise
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Envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame that nobody ever had the confidence to own it.
- John Wilmot
Collection: Passion
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any experiment of interest in life will be carried out at your own expense
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Collection: Interest In Life
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All men would be cowards if they could.
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Collection: Men
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I'd be a dog, a monkey, or a bear, or anything but that vain animal who is so proud of being rational.
- John Wilmot
Collection: Dog
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Now piercèd is her virgin zone; She feels the foe within it. She hears a broken amorous groan, The panting lover's fainting moan, Just in the happy minute.
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Collection: Broken
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Natural freedoms are but just: There's something generous in mere lust.
- John Wilmot
Collection: Lust
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Since 'tis Nature's law to change, Constancy alone is strange.
- John Wilmot
Collection: Law
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Man differs more from man than man from beast
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Collection: Men
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He never said a foolish thing nor never did a wise one.
- John Wilmot
Collection: Sarcastic
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The theatre is my drug. And my illness is so far advanced that my physic must be of the highest quality.
- John Wilmot
Collection: Drug
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It is a very good world to live in, To lend or to spend, or to live in; but to beg or to borrow, or to get a man's own, It is the very worst world that ever was known.
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Collection: Men
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Tis a meaner part of sense to find a fault than taste an excellence.
- John Wilmot
Collection: Excellence
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To pick out the wildest and most fantastical odd man alive, and to place your kindness there, is an act so brave and daring as will show the greatness of your spirit and distinguish you in love, as you are in all things else, from womankind.
- John Wilmot
Collection: Kindness
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I wish to be moved. I cannot feel in life. I must have others do it for me in theater.
- John Wilmot
Collection: Wish
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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.
- John Wilmot
Collection: Marriage
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Angels listen when she speaks; She's my delight, all mankind's wonder; But my jealous heart would break Should we live one day asunder.
- John Wilmot
Collection: Love
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Whenever you preach, be sure that you lift the Saviour high and lay the sinner low.
- John Wilmot
Collection: Lows
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Custom does often reason overrule.
- John Wilmot
Collection: Doe
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'Tis dangerous to think - For who by thinking tempts his jealous Fate, Is straight arraign'd as Traytor to the State, And none that come within the Verge of Sense, Have to Preferment now the least Pretence. . . .
- John Wilmot
Collection: Jealous
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The clog of all pleasure, the luggage of life, is the best can be said for a very good wife.
- John Wilmot
Collection: Marriage
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Born to myself, I like myself alone.
- John Wilmot
Collection: Self
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Dead we become the lumber of the world.
- John Wilmot
Collection: World
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Books bear him up a while, and make him try to swim with bladders of philosophy.
- John Wilmot
Collection: Philosophy
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If you have a grateful heart (which is a miracle amongst you statesmen), show it by directing the bearer to the best wine in town, and pray let not this highest point of sacred friendship be performed slightly, but go about it with all due deliberation and care, as holy priests to sacrifice, or as discreet thieves to the wary performance of burglary and shop-lifting. Let your well-discerning palate (the best judge about you) travel from cellar to cellar and then from piece to piece till it has lighted on wine fit for its noble choice and my approbation.
- John Wilmot
Collection: Grateful
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Nothing suits worse with vice than want of sense
- John Wilmot
Collection: Vices
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Late children are early orphans.
- John Wilmot
Collection: Children
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Before I got married I had six theories about raising children; now, I have six children and no theories.
- John Wilmot
Collection: Fathers Day

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