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There is no book on which we can rest in a dying moment but the Bible.

John Selden

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John Selden
Age: 69 †
Born: 1584
Born: December 16
Died: 1654
Died: November 30
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There was never a merry world since the fairies left off dancing.
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Thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the world.
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Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.
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Opinion is something wherein I go about to give reasons why all the world should think as I think.
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The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness.
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Pride may be allowed to this or that degree, else a man cannot keep up dignity. In gluttony there must be eating, in drunkenness there must be drinking 'tis not the eating, and 'tis not the drinking that must be blamed, but the excess. So in pride.
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Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
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Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes they were the easiest for his feet.
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Religion is like the fashion, one man wears his doublet slashed, another lashed, another plain but every man has a doublet so every man has a religion. We differ about the trimming.
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