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Fame is but the breath of people, And that often unwholesome. Jean Jacques Rousseau		Wednesday Oct 22, 2025
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Let not poor Nelly starve. (his mistress, Nell Gwynne) Charles II

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	Charles II
	(1630-1685) King of Great Britain 1660-1685 - Comment on Rochester's epitaph on him.

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This is very true: for my words are my own and my actions are my ministers.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

Of Nell Gwynn: Let not poor Nelly starve.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; he hoped that they would excuse it.

Let not poor Nelly starve. (his mistress, Nell Gwynne)

Said to a deputation of Quakers: Of this you may be assured, that you shall none of you suffer for your opinions or religion, so long as you live peaceably, and you have the word of a king for it.

You had better have one King than five hundred.