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Falstaff (Sir Anthony Quayle) makes the famous quote, then later chooses cannon fodder for the battle and muses about old men and their lies.
William Shakespeare's "The second Part of King Henry the Fourth"
Act 3, scene 2, excerpts (Arden edition)
Robert Eddison ... Justice Robert Shallow
Leslie French ... Justice Silence
Julian Battersby ... Ralph Moldy
Roy Herrick ... Simon Shadow
Alan Collins ... Thomas Wart
John Tordoff ... Francis Feeble
Roger Elliott ... Peter Bullcalf
Even that moralist, Samuel Johnson, could forgive Sir John Falstaff's faults--Falstaff he wrote is saved "by the most pleasing of all qualities, perpetual gaiety, by an unfailing power of exciting laughter"
tho this quality admittedly is, generally, somewhat overvalued by melancholy folks like Dr. Johnson.
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