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4 John Harington Quotes

John Harington offers a thoughtful mix of reflections on treason, advice, and the limits of books.

John Harington quotes

  1. Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason.

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  2. Best fishing in troubled waters.

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  3. From your confessor, lawyer and physician, Hide not your case on no condition.

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  4. Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

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    Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.