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John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
 
NUMBER:1040
AUTHOR:William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
QUOTATION:Turn him to any cause of policy,
The Gordian knot of it he will unloose,
Familiar as his garter: that when he speaks,
The air, a chartered libertine, is still.
ATTRIBUTION:King Henry V. Act i. Sc. 1.  [text]
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
WORKS:William Shakespeare Collection.
 

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