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George Savile has 28 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.
• An old man concludeth from his knowing mankind that they know him too, and that maketh him very wary.
• The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.
• A princely mind will undo a private family.
• A husband without faults is a dangerous observer.
• Love is a passion that hath friends in the garrison.
• When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters.
• A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting.
• He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.
• Many men swallow the being cheated, but no man can ever endure to chew it.
• Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.
• Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms.

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