King James I Quotes

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• A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof…
• The state of monarchy is the supremest thing upon earth: for kings are not only God's Lieutenants upon earth, and sit upon God's throne, but…
• I acknowledge the Roman Church to be our mother church, although defiled with some infirmities and corruptions...Let [the Papists] assure themselves, that, as I am…
• I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman.
• Herein is not only a great vanity, but a great contempt of God's good gifts, that the sweetness of man's breath, being a good gift…
• Smoke.. makes a kitchen also oftentimes in the inward parts of men, soiling and infecting them, with an unctuous and oily kinde of Soote as…
• Were I not a king, I would be a university man.
• Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs.

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