It is not a reproach but a compliment to learning, to say, that great scholars are less fit for business; since the truth is, business is so much a l… - George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

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It is not a reproach but a compliment to learning, to say, that great scholars are less fit for business; since the truth is, business is so much a lower thing than learning, that a man used to the last cannot easily bring his stomach down to the first.