“For Wits are treated just like Common Whores;
First they're enjoy'd, and then kickt out of Doors.”
John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1647–1680) English poet, and peer of the realm
ll. 38-39
A Satire Against Mankind (1679)
“Treat a whore like a lady and a lady like a whore.”
Quoted by Anita Loos, Kiss Hollywood Goodbye, Viking Press, New York, 1974, ISBN 0-670-41374-7. Loos goes on to claim that "the aphorism had no validity for Wilson."
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