John Ogilby (1600–1676) Scottish academic
Fab. IX: Of the Lyon and the Mouse, Moral
The Fables of Aesop (2nd ed. 1668)
“Expediency is the god of princes.”
Source: Queen's Gambit Declined (1989), Chapter 9 (p. 108)
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