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Children and fools want everything, because they want wit to distinguish; there is no stronger evidence of a crazy understanding than the making too large a catalogue of things unneccesary.

More from George Savile

  1. A man that should call every thing by its right Name, would hardly pass the Streets without being knock'd down as a common Enemy.
  2. Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no.
  3. Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.
  4. Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.
  5. A husband without faults is a dangerous observer.
  6. A man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner.
  7. A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
  8. A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting.

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