License they mean when they cry, Liberty! For who loves that must first be wise and good.
John Milton
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- On the Detraction which followed upon my writing certain Treatises.; Bartlett, Familiar Quotations, ninth edition, John Milton entry; On the Detraction which followed upon my writing certain Treatises.; Wording and named source checked in Bartlett’s published reference; the original work is identifi
- On the Detraction which followed upon my writing certain Treatises.
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