Sir John Franklin

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

    “Give me the critic bred in Nature’s school,
    Who neither talks by rote, nor thinks by rule;
    Who feeling’s honest dictates still obeys,
    And dares, without a precedent, to praise.”
    —Martin Archer, Sir Shee (1769–1850)

    “Think of what our Nation stands for,
    Books from Boots’ and country lanes,
    Free speech, free passes, class distinction,
    Democracy and proper drains.”
    —Sir John Betjeman (1906–1984)

    “No nation was ever ruined by trade.”
    —Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)