“The clog of all pleasure, the luggage of life, is the best can be said for a very good wife.”
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Famous John Wilmot Quotes
“Natural freedoms are but just: There's something generous in mere lust.”
Source: The Complete Poems of John Wilmot, the Earl of Rochester
“Man differs more from man than man from beast”
Source: The Debt to Pleasure: John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, in the Eyes of His Contemporaries and in His Own Poetry and Prose
“Dead we become the lumber of the world.”
Source: The Complete Poems of John Wilmot, the Earl of Rochester
“Books bear him up a while, and make him try to swim with bladders of philosophy.”
Source: The Complete Poems of John Wilmot, the Earl of Rochester