John Harington quotes
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“Treason doth never prosper. What's the reason? Why, when it prospers, none dare call it treason.”
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“From your confessor, lawyer and doctor, hide not your case on no condition. [Is this a way of saying that honesty is the best policy?]”
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“When I make a feast, I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks.”
-- John HaringtonSource : 'Epigrams' (1618) bk. 1, no. 5 'Against Writers that Carp at Other Men's Books'
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“Fortune, men say, doth give too much to many, But yet she never gave enough to any.”
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“Best fishing in troubled waters.”
-- John HaringtonSource : "Orlando Furioso". 1591.
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“A tailor, though a man of upright dealing,-- True but for lying,--honest but for stealing,-- Did fall one day extremely sick by chance And on the sudden was in wondrous trance.”
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“The readers and the hearers like my books, And yet some writers cannot them digest; But what care I? for when I make a feast, I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks.”
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“Five qualities there are wine's praise advancing; Strong, beautiful, fragrant, cool and dancing.”
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“History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events.”
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Source : A. L. Rowse (2016). “The Use of History”, p.45, Routledge
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“The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.”
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“Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?”
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“The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks.”
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