Quote #108

Seeming wise men may make shift to get opinion; but let no man choose them for employment; for certainly you were better take for business, a man somewhat absurd, than over-formal.

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  1. Affected dispatch is one of the most dangerous things to business that can be. It is like that, which the physicians call predigestion, or …
  2. Cure the disease and kill the patient.
  3. He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
  4. But we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends; without which the world is but…
  5. As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.
  6. Riches are for spending.
  7. It is the nature of extreme self-lovers, as they will set an house on fire, and it were but to roast their eggs.
  8. He that commands the sea is at great liberty, and may take as much and as little of the war as he will.

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