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Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.
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Men
Speech
Understanding
When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters.
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People
Victory
Liberty
Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.
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Men
Jewels
Man
Memory
Old
Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.
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Nothing
Reason
Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.
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Enemy
Man
Nothing
Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much.
George Savile
Nature
Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no.
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Men
Virtue
Crime
Popularity
Will
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.
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Cunning
Fool
Knave
Man
Play
Weakness
Wit
The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory.
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Memory
Many men swallow the being cheated, but no man can ever endure to chew it.
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Men
Being
Man
The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject.
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Sight
Vice
They who are of the opinion that Money will do everything, may very well be suspected to do everything for Money.
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Money
May
Opinion
Will
Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.
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Men
Horses
May
The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.
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May
Past
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
Business
Reason