E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax ✓

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• The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear. Appear
• Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will… All
• Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts. Borrow
• The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you. Breath
• If none were to have Liberty but those who understand what it is, there would not be many freed Men in the world. Freed
• Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for. Anger
• If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers. Complain
• Ignorance makes most men go into a political party, and shame keeps them from getting out of it. From
• Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. Bought
• A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner. Dwell
• The more arguments you win, the less friends you will have Argument
• A man that should call everything by its right name would hardly pass the streets without being knocked down as a common enemy. Call
• Business is so much lower a thing than learning that a man used to the last cannot easily bring his stomach down to the first. Bring
• There is an accumulative cruelty in a number of men, though none in particular are ill natured. Accumulative
• In our corrupted state, common weaknesses and defects contribute more towards the reconciling us to one another than all the precepts of the philosophers and… All
• I often think how much easier the world would have been to manage if Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini had been at Oxford. Been
• Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way. Company
• The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation. Best
• Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view. Contribute
• A fool hath no dialogue within himself, the first thought carrieth him without the reply of a second. Carrieth
• The several sorts of religion in the world are little more than so many spiritual monopolies. Little
• True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes. Deeper
• Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money. Expected
• He who leaves nothing to chance will do few things poorly, but he will do few things. Chance
• When people contend for their liberty they seldom get anything for their victory, but new masters. Contend

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