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

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

    “That sir which serves and seeks for gain,
    And follows but for form,
    Will pack when it begins to rain,
    And leave thee in the storm.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “The origin of storms is not in clouds,
    our lightning strikes when the earth rises,
    spillways free authentic power:
    dead John Brown’s body walking from a tunnel
    to break the armored and concluded mind.”
    —Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980)