When by habit a man cometh to have a bargaining soul, its wings are cut, so that it can never soar. It bindeth reason an apprentice to gain, and instead of a director, maketh it a drudge.
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 … - Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet
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 …
- Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet
He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things. - Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet
He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.
Men that cannot entertain themselves want somebody, though they care for nobody. - Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet
Men that cannot entertain themselves want somebody, though they care for nobody.
Weak men are the worse for the good sense they read in books because it furnisheth them only with more matter to mistake. - Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet
Weak men are the worse for the good sense they read in books because it furnisheth them only with more matter to mistake.
Could we know what men are most apt to remember, we might know what they are most apt to do. - Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet
Could we know what men are most apt to remember, we might know what they are most apt to do.
Men seldom understand any laws but those they feel. - Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet
Men seldom understand any laws but those they feel.
Men in business are in as much danger from those at work under them as from those that work against them. - Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet
Men in business are in as much danger from those at work under them as from those that work against them.
Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding. - Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet
Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.
The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory. - Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet
The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory.
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