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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

“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)

“Nothing hath an uglier Look to us than Reason, when it is not of our side.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

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

“Most men make little other use of their Speech than to give evidence against their own Understanding.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

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

“Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

On Dr. Gilbert Burnet (1643-1715), Bishop of Salisbury : as cited in The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors: 1639-1729 , ed. Charles Wells Moulton, H. Malkan (1910) p. 591.

“MISPENDING a Man's time is a kind of self-homicide, it is making Life to be of no use.”

George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

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