William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley Quotes
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Praise your children openly, reprove them secretly.
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England can never be ruined except by a Parliament.
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Don't borrow money from a neighbor or a friend, but of a stranger where, paying for it you shall hear of it no more.
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Soldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.
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A man can buy nothing in the market with gentility.
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Win hearts, and you have all men's hands and purses.
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What! All this for a song?
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Gravity must be natural and simple; there must be urbanity and tenderness in it. A man must not formalize on everything. He who does so is a fool; and a grave fool is, perhaps, more injurious than a light fool.
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Old age is the Outpatient's Dept of purgatory.
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William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley
- Born: September 13, 1520
- Died: August 4, 1598
- Occupation: Statesman