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A Little Learning misleadeth, and a great deal often stupifieth the Understanding.

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Most men make little other use of their Speech than to give evidence against their own Understanding.

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A Prince who will not undergo the Difficulty of Understanding, must undergo the Danger of Trusting.

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Remember that Children and Fools want every thing because they want Wit to distinguish: and therefore there is no stronger Evidence of a Crazy Understanding, than the making too large a Catalogue of things necessary, when in truth there are so very few things that have a right to be placed in it.

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Children and fools want everything, because they want wit to distinguish; there is no stronger evidence of a crazy understanding than the making too large a catalogue of things necessary.

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George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax

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Born: November 11, 1633
Died: April 5, 1695 (aged 61)
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