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“Golden slumbers kiss your eyes, / Smiles awake you when you rise. / Sleep, pretty wantons, do not cry, / And I will sing a lullaby.”

Thomas Dekker quotes (English Writer and Dramatist, 1570-1632)

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“Shall we play the wantons with our woes,

And make some pretty match with shedding tears?”

William Shakespeare quotes (English Dramatist, Playwright and Poet, 1564-1616)

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“Capricious, wanton, bold, and brutal lust Is meanly selfish; when resisted, cruel; And, like the blast of pestilential winds, Taints the sweet bloom of nature's fairest forms”

John Milton quotes (English Poet, Historian and Scholar. Ranks second, only to Shakespeare, among English poets. 1608-1674)

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“Therefore we Christians, in turn, are obliged not to tolerate their wanton and conscious blasphemy”

Martin Luther quotes (German Priest and Scholar whose questioning of certain church practices led to the Protestant Reformation. 1483-1546)

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“As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; They kill us for their sport.”

William Shakespeare quotes (English Dramatist, Playwright and Poet, 1564-1616)

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“Woman's destiny is to be wanton, like the bitch, the she-wolf; she must belong to all who claim her.”

Marquis De Sade quotes (French nobleman and Novelist whose perverse sexual preferences and erotic writings gave rise to the term sadism. 1740-1814)

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“The teeming Autumn big with rich increase, bearing the wanton burden of the prime like widowed wombs after their lords decease.”

William Shakespeare quotes (English Dramatist, Playwright and Poet, 1564-1616)

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“People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes quotes (American Physician, Poet, Writer, Humorist and Professor at Harvard, 1809-1894)

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“Back in the days when men were hunters and chest beaters and women spent their whole lives worrying about pregnancy or dying in childbirth, they often had to be taken against their will. Men complained that women were cold, unresponsive, frigid. They wanted their women wanton. They wanted their women wild. Now women were finally learning to be wanton and wild -- and what happened? The men wilted.”

Erica Jong quotes (American writer and feminist, 1942)

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“Fie, fie upon her!

There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip,

Nay, her foot speaks; her wanton spirits look out

At every joint and motive of her body.”

William Shakespeare quotes (English Dramatist, Playwright and Poet, 1564-1616)

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“In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air.”

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John Webster quotes (English Writer and Playwright, 1580-1632)

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