. . . for the most part the worst instructed, and the least knowing of any of their rank, I ever went amongst.
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An anecdote is related of Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper (1621-1683), who, in speaking of religion, said, 'People differ in their discourse and profession about these matters, but men of sense are really but of one religion.' To the inquiry of 'What religion' the Earl said, 'Men of sense never tell it.'Gilbert Burnet
. . . was apt to suffer things to run on till there was a great heap of papers laid before him, so then he signed them a little too precipitately.
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One of the strangest catastrophes that is in any history. A great king, with strong armies and mighty fleets, a great treasure and powerful allies, fell all at once, and his whole strength, like a spider's web, was . . . irrecoverably broken at a touch.
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. . . it a great error to waste young gentlemen's years so long in learning Latin by so tedious a grammar.
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The Duke of Buckingham gave me once a short but severe character of the two brothers. It was the more severe, because it was true the King (he said) could see things if he would, and the Duke would see things if he could.
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