More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as Ballads and Libels. - John Selden - Quotesmemo.com

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John Selden

More solid things do not show the complexion of the times so well as Ballads and Libels.

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We see the judges look like lions, but we do not see who moves them.

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Ceremony keeps up things: 'tis like a penny glass to a rich spirit, or some excellent water; without it the water were spilt, and the spirit lost.

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

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Fine wits destroy themselves with their own plots, in meddling with great affairs of state.

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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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