Quote #27

Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.

More from George Savile

  1. 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…
  2. Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.
  3. Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.
  4. Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much.
  5. Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts.
  6. Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.
  7. Many men swallow the being cheated, but no man can ever endure to chew it.
  8. The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation.

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