None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. - John Milton

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None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license.

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About John Milton

John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell. He wrote at a time of religious flux and political upheaval, and is most famous for his epic poem Paradise Lost (1667), written in blank verse.

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