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• I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), King Henry IV -- Act i, Sc. 2...
• An ambassador is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the commonwealth.
  -- Sir Henry Wotton (1568-1639) -- Reliquiae Wottonianae...
• Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.
  -- Sir Henry Wotton (1568-1639) -- The Disparity between Buckingham and Essex...
• Lord of himself, though not of lands; And having nothing, yet hath all.
  -- Sir Henry Wotton (1568-1639) -- The Character of a Happy Life...
• Sir Henry Wotton used to say that critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Apothegms, No, 64...
• Tell the truth, and so puzzle and confound your adversaries. -- Sir Henry Wotton (1568-1639)
• The itch of disputing will prove the scab of churches.
  -- Sir Henry Wotton (1568-1639) -- A Panegyric to King Charle...
• An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the benefit of his country.
  -- Sir Henry Wotton, 1568-1639...
• He first deceased; she for a little tried To live without him, liked it not, and died.
  -- Sir Henry Wotton (1568-1639) -- Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife...