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“THE best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.”
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Variant: THE best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.
“It is Ill-manners to silence a Fool, and Cruelty to let him go on.”
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“MANY Men swallow the being cheated, but no Man could ever endure to chew it.”
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“Money hath too great a Preference given to it by States, as well as by particular Men.”
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“Nothing is less forgiven than setting Patterns Men have no mind to follow.”
Princes (their Rewards of Servants).
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“Some Mens Memory is like a Box, where a Man should mingle his Jewels with his old Shoes.”
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“A Husband without Faults is a dangerous Observer.”
The Lady's New Year's Gift: or Advice to a Daughter (1688)
“Malice is of a low Stature, but it hath very long Arms.”
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The Anatomy of an Equivalent : from The Complete Works of George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax (1912), ed. Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Clarendon Press p. 123.
The Anatomy of an Equivalent (1688)
Of Fundamentals.
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The Lady's New Year's Gift: or Advice to a Daughter (1688)
“Love is a Passion that hath Friends in the Garrison.”
The Lady's New Year's Gift: or Advice to a Daughter (1688)
Religion.
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“Malice, like Lust, when it is at the Height, doth not know Shame.”
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“If the Laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the Lawyers in the first Place.”
Of Laws.
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“The condition of mankind is to be weary of what we do know, and afraid of what we do not.”
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“He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.”
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