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The law against witches does not prove there be any; but it punishes the malice of those people that use such means to take away men's lives.
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Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
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They that govern most make the least noise.
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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.
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There never was a merry world since the fairies left off dancing, and the Parson left conjuring.
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Equity is a roguish thing. For Law we have a measure, know what to trust to; Equity is according to the conscience of him that is Chancellor, and as that is larger or narrower, so is Equity. 'T is all one as if they should make the standard for the measure we call a "foot" a Chancellor's foot; what an uncertain measure would this be! One Chancellor has a long foot, another a short foot, a third an indifferent foot. 'T is the same thing in the Chancellor's conscience.
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Gentelmen heve ever been more temperate in their religion than common people, as having more reason.
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John Selden
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Born:
December 16, 1584
Died:
November 30, 1654
(aged 69)
Bio:
John Selden was an English jurist and a scholar of England's ancient laws and constitution and scholar of Jewish law.
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The Table-Talk Of John Selden
Titles of honor (1614)
Of the dominion or ownership of the sea
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