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Sir George Savile Quotes: Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or not.
         

Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or not.


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Popularity is a crime from the moment it is sought it is only a virtue where men have it whether they will or not.
         



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Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.



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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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He who thinks his place below him, will certainly be below his place.



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