John Arbuthnot Fisher

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    “To John I owed great obligation;
    But John, unhappily, thought fit
    To publish it to all the nation:
    Sure John and I are more than quit.”
    —Matthew Prior (1664–1721)

    “All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.”
    —John Arbuthnot (1667–1735)

    “... having bowed to the inevitability of the dictum that we must eat to live, we should ignore it and live to eat ...”
    —M.F.K. Fisher (1908–1992)