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Religion is like the fashion, one man wears his doublet slashed, another laced, another plain; but every man has a doublet; so every man has a religion. We differ about the trimming.

— John Selden

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Wise men say nothing in dangerous times.

Table Talk (1689)

Take a straw and throw it up into the air — you may see by that which way the wind is.

Table Talk (1689)

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.

Table Talk (1689)

Humility is a virtue all preach, none practise, and yet every body is content to hear.

Table Talk: Being the Discourses (1786)

Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak.

Table Talk (1689)

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