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A gallant man is above ill words.
John Selden
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John Selden
Age: 69 †
Born: 1584
Born: December 16
Died: 1654
Died: November 30
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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.
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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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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.
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Scrutamini scripturas (Let us look at the scriptures). These two words have undone the world.
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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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Of all the actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all the actions of our lives, 'tis the most meddled with by other people.
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The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness.
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Abundance consists not alone in material possession, but in an uncovetous spirit.
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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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