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“It is not a reproach but a compliment to learning, to say, that great scholars are less fit for business; since the truth is, business is so much a lower thing than learning, that a man used to the last cannot easily bring his stomach down to the first.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections

“They who are of opinion that Money will do every thing, may very well be suspected to do every thing for Money.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections

“Remember that Children and Fools want every thing because they want Wit to distinguish: and therefore there is no stronger Evidence of a Crazy Understanding, than the making too large a Catalogue of things necessary, when in truth there are so very few things that have a right to be placed in it.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

The Lady's New Year's Gift: or Advice to a Daughter (1688)

“He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections

“A very great Memory often forgetteth how much Time is lost by repeating things of no Use.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

On King Charles II’s memory.
A Character of King Charles II (1750)

“If Men considered how many Things there are that Riches cannot buy, they would not be so fond of them.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Moral Thoughts and Reflections

“The Triumph of Wit is to make your good Nature subdue your Censure; to be quick in seeing Faults, and slow in exposing them. You are to consider, that the invisible thing called a Good Name, is made up of the Breath of Numbers that speak well of you; so that if by a disobliging Word you silence the meanest, the Gale will be less strong which is to bear up your Esteem.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

The Lady's New Year's Gift: or Advice to a Daughter (1688)

“When the People contend for their Liberty, they seldom get any thing by their Victory but new Masters.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Of Prerogative, Power and Liberty.
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Political Thoughts and Reflections

“Suspicion seldom wanteth Food to keep it up in Health and Vigour. It feedeth upon every thing it seeth, and is not curious in its Diet.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections

“A man that should call every thing by its right Name, would hardly pass the Streets without being knock'd down as a common Enemy.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections

“It is a general Mistake to think the Men we like are good for every thing, and those we do not, good for nothing.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections