John Arbuthnot Fisher

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    “And that enquiring man John Synge comes next,
    That dying chose the living world for text
    And never could have rested in the tomb
    But that, long travelling, he had come
    Towards nightfall upon certain set apart
    In a most desolate stony place....”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “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)