Quote #4

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

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More from John Harington

  1. From your confessor, lawyer and physician, Hide not your case on no condition.
  2. Best fishing in troubled waters.
  3. Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason.

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