Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing… - John Milton

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Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law.

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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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