Oxford Essential Quotations (4 ed.)

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Jean Meslier c.1664–1733
French priest

An ignorant, uneducated man…said he wished…that all the great men in the world and all the nobility could be hanged, and strangled with the guts of priests.
often quoted ‘I should like…the last of the kings to be strangled with the guts of the last priest’
Testament (ed. R. Charles, 1864) vol. 1, ch. 2; see Diderot

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