Pope Anastasius III

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    Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore;
    Full well they merit all they feel, and more:
    Unaw’d by precepts, human or divine,
    Like birds and beasts, promiscuously they join.
    —Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

    Knavery seems to be so much a the striking feature of its inhabitants that it may not in the end be an evil that they will become aliens to this kingdom.
    —George III (1738–1820)