13 Quotes by John Harington
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From your confessor, lawyer and physician, hide not your case on no condition.
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Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it treason
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Five qualities there are wine's praise advancing; Strong, beautiful, fragrant, cool and dancing.
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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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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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Best fishing in troubled waters.
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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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When I make a feast, I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks.
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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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