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A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting.
George Savile
Danger
Difficulty
Understanding
Will
Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms.
George Savile
Malice
Love is a passion that hath friends in the garrison.
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Love
Friends
Passion
Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffer if they break them.
George Savile
Laws
If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.
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Laws
Lawyers
Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way.
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Hope
Company
Wrong
He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.
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Chance
Nothing
Will
The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.
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Forget
Man
Teaching
Vanity
A princely mind will undo a private family.
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Family
Mind
Will
A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
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Man
Patience
A man man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner.
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Thought
Man
May
A husband without faults is a dangerous observer.
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HusbFaults
Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.
George Savile
Education