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NUMBER:46746
QUOTATION:Most Men are Cowards, all Men should be Knaves.
The Difference lies, as far as I can see,
Not in the thing it self, but the degree;
ATTRIBUTION:John Wilmot, 2d Earl Of Rochester (1647–1680), British poet. A Satire against Mankind (l. 169–171). . .

Oxford Book of Satirical Verse, The. Geoffrey Grigson, comp. (1980) Oxford University Press.
 
 
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