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If we are understood, more words are unnecessary; if we are not likely to be understood, they are useless.

— Charles II of England

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I told him, that if that rogue were taken he deserved to be hanged, more than all the rest, for bringing in the Scots. Upon which he said, that I spoke like an honest man, and so we parted.

Philibert de Gramont (1701)

If they don't like the brothels, they needn't go to them.

Milton James Lewis (1998)

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

A History of England (1849)

I asked the smith what news? He told me that there was no news that he knew of, since the good news of the beating of the rogues the Scots.

Philibert de Gramont (1701)

And who cannot but remember, That Religion, Liberty and Property were all lost and gone, when the Monarchy was shaken off, and could never be reviv'd till that was restored.

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