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Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

Weak men are the worse for the good sense they read in books because it furnisheth them only with more matter to mistake.

Book, Books, Men, Mistake, Worse
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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.

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A wise man will keep his suspicions muzzled, but he will keep them awake.

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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.

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When the People contend for their Liberty, they seldom get anything by their Victory but new masters. Power is so apt to be insolent and Liberty to be saucy, that they are very seldom upon good Terms.

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The law hath so many contradictions and varyings from itself, that the law may not improperly be called a law-breaker. It is become too changeable a thing to be defined: it is made little less a Mystery than the Gospel. The clergy and the lawyers, like the Freemasons, may be supposed to take an oath not to tell the secret.

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