Creative Quotations from John Arbuthnot (1667-1735)

Creative Quotations from . . .

John Arbuthnot
(1667-1735) born on Apr 29

English physician. "He wrote five "John Bull" pamphlets, 1712, which popularized idea of John Bull as a typical Englishman."

The first Care in building of Cities, is to make them airy and well perflated; infectious Distempers must necessarily be propagated amongst Mankind living close together."

[The writer] warns the heads of parties against believing their own lies.

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

"Law is a bottomless pit, it is a cormorant, a Harpy that devours everything."

Biography is one of the new terrors of death.

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Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	""An Essay Concerning the Effects of Air on Human Bodies.""
R:	""The Art of Political Lying.""
A:	"In "Life of Emerson, by Richard Garnett, ch. 7, 1888."
N:	"From a pamphlet entitled "Law is a bottomless pit.""
K:	"In "The Poetical Works of Pope," vol. 1, ch. 3, by Robert Carruthers, 1853."