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Treason

It was during the Parnell agitation in Ireland that an anti- Parnellite, criticising the ways of tenants in treating absentee landlords, exclaimed to Archbishop Ryan of Philadelphia: "Why, it looks very much like treason."

Instantly came the answer in the Archbishop's best brogue: "Sure, treason is reason when there's an absent 't'." Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason?

Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason. -Sir John Harrington.