"The readers and the hearers like my books,……" — John Harington
"The readers and the hearers like my books, But 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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9 Quotes by John Harington
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From your confessor, lawyer and doctor, hide not your case on no condition. [Is this a way of saying that…
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When I make a feast, I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks.
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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.
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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…
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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 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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