Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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Humility is a virtue all preach, none practise; and yet everybody is content to hear.

Table Talk. Humility.

'T is not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess.

Table Talk. Humility.

Commonly we say a judgment falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide.

Table Talk. Judgments.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man; not that all men know the law, but because 't is an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to refute him.

Table Talk. Law.

No man is the wiser for his learning.

Table Talk. Learning.