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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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The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.
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John Harington

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.
Known for:
  1. The epigrams of Sir John Harington
  2. Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum

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