Quote #30

Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.

More from George Savile

  1. Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much.
  2. The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation.
  3. Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.
  4. The best qualification of a prophet is to have a good memory.
  5. Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.
  6. The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.
  7. 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…
  8. The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you.

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