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Own Quotes by John Selden
- A glorious Church is like a magnificent feast; there is all the variety that may be, but every one chooses out a dish or two…
- Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.
- In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.
- The clergy would have us believe them against our own reason, as the woman would have her husband against his own eyes.
- Fine wits destroy themselves with their own plots, in meddling with great affairs of state.
- A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to…
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