Half the Truth is often as arrant a Lye, as can be made. - George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

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The People are never so perfectly backed, but that they will kick and fling if not stroked at seasonable times.

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Malice, like Lust, when it is at the Height, doth not know Shame.

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Every single Act either weakeneth or improveth our Credit with other Men ; and as an habit of being just to our Word will confirm, so an habit of too freely dispensing with it must necessarily destroy it.

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