Quote #24

Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.

More from George Savile

  1. Many men swallow the being cheated, but no man can ever endure to chew it.
  2. Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.
  3. Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms.
  4. No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometime…
  5. Love is a passion that hath friends in the garrison.
  6. Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.
  7. Laws are generally not understood by three sorts of persons, viz, by those who make them, by those who execute them, and by those who suffe…
  8. Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.

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