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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
Jurist
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Writer
Men
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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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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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Abundance consists not alone in material possession, but in an uncovetous spirit.
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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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Take a straw and throw it up into the air, you may see by that which way the wind is.
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While you are upon earth, enjoy the good things that are here (to that end were they given), and be not melancholy, and wish yourself in heaven.
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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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There is no book on which we can rest in a dying moment but the Bible.
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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 House of Commons is called the Lower House, in twenty Acts of Parliament but what are twenty Acts of Parliament amongst Friends?
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Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why He should grant this or that He knows best wheat is good for us. If your boy should ask you for a suit of clothes and give you reasons, would you endure it? You know his needs better than he let him ask for a suit of clothes.
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There was never a merry world since the fairies left off dancing.
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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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No man is the wiser for his learning
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The Parish makes the constable, and when the constable is made, he governs the Parish.
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Marriage is a desperate thing.
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If the prisoner should ask the judge whether he would be content to be hanged, were he in his case, he would answer no. Then, says the prisoner, do as you would be done to.
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Scrutamini scripturas (Let us look at the scriptures). These two words have undone the world.
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Preachers say, Do as I say, not as I do. But if a physician had the same disease upon him that I have, and he should bid me do one thing and he do quite another, could I believe him?
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