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Hugh Plat Quotes

1552–1608

Sir Hugh Plat (1552 – 1608) was an English writer on agriculture and inventor, known from his works The Jewell House of Art and Nature (1594) and his major work on gardening Floraes Paradise (1608).

Also known as: Hugh Platt

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I have always found It in mine own experience an easier matter to devise manie and profitable inventions, than to dispose of one of them to the good of the author himself.

For too little of tile best Marle can doe but little good, and too nmch therof hath beene alreadie founde to bee verie hurtfull to the Corne.

p. 30; Cited in: Malcolm Thick (1994)

I dare boldly conclude that the most valiant armie of the best approved soldiers, (yea though consisting of lovers themselves, and that giving battaile in the presence of their Ladies and Mistresses) may easily even with a small band of ingenious scholars and Artists be utterly overthrown and vanquished.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Hugh Plat (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.