"Charles II, himself a crypto-Catholic libertine, was reputedly appalled by James's folly in matters of religion and sex: 'My brother will lose his kingdom by his bigotry, and his soul for a lot of ugly trollops.'" John Mullan
I hold that candour is good only when it reveals good actions or good sentiments, and that when it reveals evil, itself is evil. Max Beerbohm
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