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«Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us.»
«Money makes a man laugh»
«A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat.»
«To preach long, loud, and Damnation, is the way to be cried up. We love a man that damns us, and we run after him again to save us.»
«Pleasures are all alike simply considered in themselves: he that hunts, or he that governs the commonwealth, they both please themselves alike, only we commend that, whereby we ourselves receive some benefit.»
Author: John Selden
(Antiquarian, Jurist, Politician)
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commend, governs, hunts, the Commonwealth
«Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.»
«They that govern the most make the least noise.»
«A glorious Church is like a magnificent feast; there is all the variety that may be, but every one chooses out a dish or two that he likes, and lets the rest alone.»
«It's not the drinking to be blamed, but the excess.»
«Philosophy is nothing but discretion.»
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