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Samuel Butler on Character

1612–1680 England

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Why should not conscience have vacation
As well as other courts o' th' nation?

Part II (1664)

'Tis true no lover has that pow'r
T' enforce a desperate amour,
As he that has two strings t' his bow,
And burns for love and money too.

Hudibras, Part III (1678)

That conscience approves of and attests such a course of action, is itself alone an obligation.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

Why should not conscience have vacation,
As well as other courts o’ th’ nation?
Have equal power to adjourn,
Appoint appearance, and return?

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

Attribution

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