Sir John Arbuthnot

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    “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)

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