Quote#Speech
Words must be taken according to the matter whereof they are uttered
Quote byRichard Hooker · 1554–1600
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie (1594), Book IV. Ch. xi. 7, in The Works of That Learned and Judicious Divine, Mr. Richard Hooker: With An Account of His Life and Death by Isaac Walton. Vol. I, ed. John Keble (1845 ed.), p. 457.
English (original)
Words must be taken according to the matter whereof they are uttered.
— Richard Hooker
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