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Robert Cecil
British
Public Servant
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Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal and venereal disease.
Robert Cecil,
British
Public Servant
#Disease
#Virtue
#Scandal
Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.
Robert Cecil,
British
Public Servant
#People
Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse. Faith laughs at the shaking of the spear; unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf.
Robert Cecil,
British
Public Servant
#Evil
#Faith
#Unbelief
People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.
Robert Cecil,
British
Public Servant
#People
Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.
Robert Cecil,
British
Public Servant
#Society
#Solitude
A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.
Robert Cecil,
British
Public Servant
#Man
#Men
#Wealth
#Horses
#Comparisons