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There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it.
- George Savile
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#Business
#Reason
#Think
#Would
A man man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner.
- George Savile
#Dwell
#Long
#Man
#Prisoner
#Take
Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no.
- George Savile
#Men
#Moment
#Popularity
#Virtue
#Will
The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.
- George Savile
#Best Way
#Best
#Past
#Remember
#Way
A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting.
- George Savile
#Danger
#Difficulty
#Understanding
#Will
If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.
- George Savile
#Complain
#Laws
#Lawyers
#Speak
#Would
A husband without faults is a dangerous observer.
- George Savile
#Dangerous
#Husband
#Observer
#Without
The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject.
- George Savile
#Against
#Best
#Better
#Sermon
#Sight
When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters.
- George Savile
#Anything
#Liberty
#New
#People
#Victory
They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money.
- George Savile
#Everything
#Money
#Opinion
#Well
#Will
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
#Enough
#Fool
#Man
#Sometimes
#Weakness
Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.
- George Savile
#Been
#Education
#Forgotten
#Remains
#Taught
Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them.
- George Savile
#Break
#Laws
#Three
#Understood
#Who
The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.
- George Savile
#Doth
#Forget
#He
#Man
#Teaching
Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms.
- George Savile
#Arms
#Long
#Low
#Malice
#Very
Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way.
- George Savile
#Company
#Good Company
#Good
#Hope
#Way
He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.
- George Savile
#Chance
#He
#Nothing
#Things
#Will
Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.
- George Savile
#Hanged
#Horses
#May
#Men
#Stealing
#Stolen
Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
- George Savile
#Anger
#Argument
#Good
#Never
#Without
A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
- George Savile
#Everything
#Man
#Master
#Patience
#Who
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