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“In the reign of Charles II. a certain worthy divine at Whitehall thus addressed himself to the auditory at the conclusion of his sermon: "In short, if you don't live up to the precepts of the Gospel, but abandon yourselves to your irregular appetites, you must expect to receive your reward in a certain place which 't is not good manners to mention here."”
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- Source:
- Laconics.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- a06570484c8e815e61eb2c8a33ba17ef0558407e92ed0537bfe6a6ac2c837b3c
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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