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Where does our investigation get its importance from, since it seems only to destroy everything interesting, that is, all that is great and important? (As it were all the buildings, leaving behind only bits of stone and rubble.) What we are destroying is nothing but houses of cards and we are clearing up the ground of language on which they stand. Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein		Thursday Jul 31, 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.