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Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet Quotes: There is hardly any man so strict as not to vary a little from truth when he is to make an excuse.
         

There is hardly any man so strict as not to vary a little from truth when he is to make an excuse.


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



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Could we know what men are most apt to remember, we might know what they are most apt to do.



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Weak men are the worse for the good sense they read in books because it furnisheth them only with more matter to mistake.



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Men in business are in as much danger from those at work under them as from those that work against them.



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