“He is at no end of his actions blest
Whose ends will make him greatest, and not best.”

—  George Chapman , The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron

Act V, scene i; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron (1608)

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