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Wickedness is voluntary frenzy, and every sinner does more extravagant things than any man that is crazed and out of his wits, only that he knows better what he does.
Wickedness is voluntary frenzy, and every sinner does more extravagant things than any man that is crazed and out of his wits, only that he knows better what he does.
Approximate author period: c. 1662 AD · renaissance
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- John Tillotson
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- Approximate author period: c. 1662 AD · renaissance
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- Dictionary of Quotations (1893) (1893 AD)
Printed citation: Tillotson. · page_555
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