Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.
More Quotes from John Selden:
He that has not religion to govern his morality, is not a dram better than my mastiff-dog so long as you stroke him, and please him, and do not pinch him, he will play with you as finely as may be, he is a very good moral mastiff but if you hurt him, he will fly in your face, and tear out your throat.John Selden
The Hall was the place where the great lord used to eat ... He ate not in private, except in time of sickness ... Nay, the king himself used to eat in the Hall, and his lords sat with him, and he understood men.
John Selden
We measure the excellency of other men by some excellency we conceive to be in ourselves
John Selden
We pick out a text here and there to make it serve our turn whereas, if we take it all together, and considered what went before and what followed after, we should find it meant no such thing
John Selden
Ignorance of the law excuses no man not that all men know the law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to confute him.
John Selden
Tis a fine thing for children to learn to make verse but when they come to be men, they must speak like other men, or else they will be laughed at
John Selden
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