John Harington famous quotes
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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 doctor, hide not your case on no condition. [Is this a way of saying that honesty is the best policy?]
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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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A tailor, though a man of upright dealing,-- True but for lying,--honest but for stealing,-- Did fall one day extremely sick by chance And on the sudden was in wondrous trance.
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The readers and the hearers like my books, And 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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Five qualities there are wine's praise advancing; Strong, beautiful, fragrant, cool and dancing.
-- John Harington
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History is not a catalogue but...a convincing version of events.
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All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left out.
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History is a great deal closer to poetry than is generally realised: in truth, I think, it is in essence the same.
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Pearl Harbor is strenuously respectful of contemporary sensitivities, sometimes at the cost of accuracy.
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I think things happened the way they did for a reason
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The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
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Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
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The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks.
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Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused.
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I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.
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