We look after religion as the butcher did after his knife, when he had it in his mouth. - John Selden

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For it is said, you know, that a letter will always seek a reader; that sooner or later, like it or not, words have a way of finding the light, of making their secrets known.

John Selden

We look after religion as the butcher did after his knife, when he had it in his mouth.

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Take a straw and throw it up into the air, you may see by that which way the wind is.

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Fine wits destroy themselves with their own plots, in meddling with great affairs of state.

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No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.

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