Shabby, word-eating, pocket-picketing, sacrilegious villains.
Notes from Wikiquote
Quoted in Arthur Burns, "Wilberforce, Samuel (1805–1873)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004
Is it on your grandmother’s or grandfather’s side that you are descended from an ape?
A resolution to attend theatres or operas is an absolute disqualification for Holy Orders.
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