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Quotes and Images From Motley's History of the Netherlands · John Lothrop Motley — chapter 23 of 40 · ~266 words · public domain

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Never lack of fishers in troubled waters

New Years Day in England, 11th January by the New Style

Night brings counsel

Nine syllables that which could be more forcibly expressed in on

No one can testify but a householder

No man can be neutral in civil contentions

No law but the law of the longest purse

No two books, as he said, ever injured each other

No retrenchments in his pleasures of women, dogs, and buildings

No great man can reach the highest position in our government

No man is safe (from news reporters)

No man could reveal secrets which he did not know

No authority over an army which they did not pay

No man pretended to think of the State

No synod had a right to claim Netherlanders as slaves

No qualities whatever but birth and audacity to recommend him

No generation is long-lived enough to reap the harvest

No man ever understood the art of bribery more thoroughly

No calumny was too senseless to be invented

None but God to compel me to say more than I choose to say

Nor is the spirit of the age to be pleaded in defence

Not a friend of giving details larger than my ascertained facts

Not distinguished for their docility

Not to let the grass grow under their feet

Not a single acquaintance in the place, and we glory in the fact

Not safe for politicians to call each other hard names

Not his custom nor that of his councillors to go to bed

Not of the genus Reptilia, and could neither creep nor crouch

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