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A husband without faults is a dangerous observer.
George Savile

A man man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner.
George Savile

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.
George Savile

A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting.
George Savile

A princely mind will undo a private family.
George Savile

Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught.
George Savile

He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.
George Savile

Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way.
George Savile

If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers.
George Savile

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 suffer if they break them.
George Savile


Love is a passion that hath friends in the garrison.
George Savile

Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms.
George Savile

Many men swallow the being cheated, but no man can ever endure to chew it.
George Savile

Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.
George Savile

Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.
George Savile

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 sometimes to play the fool.
George Savile

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

Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.
George Savile

Our nature hardly allows us to have enough of anything without having too much.
George Savile

Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought; it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or no.
George Savile

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Biography
Type: Politician
Nationality: English
Born: July 18, 1726
Died: January 10, 1784

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