"A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to……" — King James I
"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 nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless."
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King James I
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8 Quotes by King James I
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The state of monarchy is the supremest thing upon earth: for kings are not only God's Lieutenants upon earth, and…
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I acknowledge the Roman Church to be our mother church, although defiled with some infirmities and corruptions...Let [the Papists] assure…
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I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman.
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Herein is not only a great vanity, but a great contempt of God's good gifts, that the sweetness of man's…
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Smoke.. makes a kitchen also oftentimes in the inward parts of men, soiling and infecting them, with an unctuous and…
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Were I not a king, I would be a university man.
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Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs.
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