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George Savile
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
categories: Richness and Money
2. "The best qualification of a prophet is to have a good memory."
categories: Memory
3. "Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes."
categories: Memory
4. "Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side."
categories: Intellect, Judgement
5. "Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide."
categories: Various -:- Work and Laziness
6. "Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen."
categories: Law and Crime
7. "Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms."
categories: Good and Evil
8. "If the laws could speak for themselves, they would complain of the lawyers in the first place."
categories: Law and Crime
9. "Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way."
categories: Optimism and Hope
10. "Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught."
categories: Education
11. "A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else."
categories: Various
categories: Friendship and Hostility
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