Great Throughts Treasury
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John Harington, fully Sir John Harington, also Harrington
English Courtier, Translator, Author, Inventor of Flush Toilet
"It is better to love two too many than one too few."
"Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason."
"Best fishing in troubled waters. "
"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. "