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Pleasures bring effeminacy, and effeminacy foreruns ruin such conquests, without blood or sweat, sufficiently do revenge themselves upon their intemperate conquerors.

Francis Quarles

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Francis Quarles
Age: 52 †
Born: 1592
Born: May 8
Died: 1644
Died: September 8
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Havering
Blood
Sufficiently
Bring
Conquest
Pleasure
Ruin
Upon
Pleasures
Effeminacy
Without
Excess
Intemperate
Sweat
Conquests
Ruins
Conquerors
Revenge
Conqueror

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