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Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much.
George Savile
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Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.
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The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject.
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Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.
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He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.
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Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.
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No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool.
George Savile
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They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money.
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If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.
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The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory.
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A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting.
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