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P. F. Strawson: 'No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms.'

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P. F. Strawson: 'Neither Aristotelian nor Russellian rules give the exact logic of any expression of ordinary language; for ordinary language has no exact logic.'

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John Selden: 'In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.'

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John Selden: 'Philosophy is nothing but discretion.'

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John Selden: 'They that govern the most make the least noise.'

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John Selden: 'No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.'

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John Selden: 'The world cannot be governed without juggling.'

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John Selden: 'Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.'

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John Selden: '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.'

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John Selden: 'Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.'

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John Selden: 'Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.'

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John Selden: 'Of all actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all actions of our life tis most meddled with by other people.'

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John Selden: 'It's not the drinking to be blamed, but the excess.'

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John Selden: 'Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us.'

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John Selden: 'Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.'

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John Selden: 'Old friends are best.'

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John Robert Seeley: 'No virtue is safe that is not enthusiastic.'

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John Robert Seeley: 'Life may not be beautiful, but it is interesting.'

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John Robert Seeley: 'We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.'

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John Milton: 'Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.'

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