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    “You have sat too long for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!”
    —Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658)

    “Lunch? You gotta be kidding. Lunch is for wimps.”
    —Stanley Weiser, U.S. screenwriter, and Oliver Stone. Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas)

    “Necessity hath no law.”
    —Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658)

    “The [nineteenth-century] young men who were Puritans in politics were anti-Puritans in literature. They were willing to die for the independence of Poland or the Manchester Fenians; and they relaxed their tension by voluptuous reading in Swinburne.”
    —Rebecca West (1892–1983)