George Savile
Politician
1726-07-18
Books by George Savile
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Lady's New-Year's gift
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Miscellanies
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The character of a trimmer
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Quotes by George Savile
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Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms.
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A princely mind will undo a private family.
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Men in business are in as much danger from those at work under them as from those that work against them.
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Weak men are the worse for the good sense they read in books because it furnisheth them only with more matter to mistake.
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Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.
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Most mens anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady that neither of them care for.
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Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.
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Men that cannot entertain themselves want somebody, though they care for nobody.
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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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The struggling for knowledge hath a pleasure in it like that of wrestling with a fine woman.
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Our virtues and vices couple with one another, and get children that resemble both their parents.
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The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.
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Explaining is generally half confessing.
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A fool hath no dialogue within himself; the first thought carrieth him without the reply of a second.
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Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.
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A man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner.
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A wife is to thank God her husband hath faults. ... A husband without faults is a dangerous observer.
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You should live in the world so as it may hang about you like a loose garment.
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Could we know what men are most apt to remember, we might know what they are most apt to do.
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A wise man will keep his suspicions muzzled, but he will keep them awake.
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