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Famous quotes containing the words sir john, son 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)

    The Son of man goeth as it is written of him: but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! It had been good for that man if he had not been born.
    Bible: New Testament Jesus, in Matthew, 26:24.

    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)