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Famous quotes containing the words sir john and/or sir:

“Treason doth never prosper; what’s the reason?
For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.”
—Sir John Harington (1561–1612)

“At Flores in the Azores Sir Richard Grenville lay,
And a pinnace, like a fluttered bird, came flying from far away:
‘Spanish ships of war at sea! we have sighted fifty-three!’”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)