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Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.
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From your confessor, lawyer and physician,
Hide not your case on no condition.
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When I make a feast,
I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks.
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He called for his urinal and having made water in it, he cast it, & viewed it (as Physicians do) a prettie while; at last he swore soberly, he saw nothing in that man's water, but that he might live.
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John Harington
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Born:
1561
Died:
November 20, 1612
(aged 51)
Bio:
Sir John Harington, of Kelston, but baptised in London, was an English courtier, author and translator popularly known as the inventor of the flush toilet.
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The epigrams of Sir John Harington
Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum
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