Quote #1

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

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More from John Harington

  1. Best fishing in troubled waters.
  2. From your confessor, lawyer and physician, Hide not your case on no condition.
  3. Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

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