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The law against witches does not prove there be any but it punishes the malice of those people that use such means to take away men's lives.
John Selden
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John Selden
Age: 69 †
Born: 1584
Born: December 16
Died: 1654
Died: November 30
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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 refute him.
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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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Take a straw and throw it up into the air, you may see by that which way the wind is.
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The clergy would have us believe them against our own reason, as the woman would have her husband against his own eyes.
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They that are against Superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I will wear all colours but black, then am I superstitious in not wearing black.
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Those that govern most make least noise.
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