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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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Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.
George Savile
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Many men swallow the being cheated, but no man can ever endure to chew it.
George Savile
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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
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Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.
George Savile
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Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.
George Savile
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The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.
George Savile
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A man man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner.
George Savile
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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
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The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.
George Savile
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When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters.
George Savile
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A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
George Savile
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Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way.
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