The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.
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In your clothes avoid too much gaudiness do not value yourself upon an embroidered gown and remember that a reasonable word, or an obliging look, will gain you more respect than all your fine trappings.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.
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Most men make little use of their speech than to give evidence against their own understanding.
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Every single Act either weakeneth or improveth our Credit with other Men and as an habit of being just to our Word will confirm, so an habit of too freely dispensing with it must necessarily destroy it
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A prince who will not undergo the difficulty of understanding must undergo the danger of trusting.
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