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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, 1st Marquess of Halifax
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, 1st Marquess of Halifax
A man man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
A husband without faults is a dangerous observer.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
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, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Many men swallow the being cheated, but no man can ever endure to chew it.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
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, 1st Marquess of Halifax
The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Love is a passion that hath friends in the garrison.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
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