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Quote by Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

“The greatest slave in a kingdom is generally the king of it.”

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Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, was a poet and politician during the English Renaissance. He is known for his poetic works and literary criticism, as well as his significant role in English politics. more

“It by no means follows, that because two men utter the same words, they have precisely the same idea which they mean to express: language is inadequate to the variety of ideas which are conceived by different minds, and which, could they be expressed, would produce a new variety of characteristic differences between man and man.”

Men Mind Mean Two Ideas Different Language Differences Produce Variety Characteristics Inadequate Different Minds

Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

“No fruit has a more precise marked period of maturity, than love; if neglected to be gathered at that time, it will certainly fall to the ground and die away.”

Ifs Love Dies Fall Periods Fruit Maturity Precise Neglected

Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

“Love will sacrifice more to others than friendship, but then it exacts more from them.”

Love Sacrifice

Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

“No man ever reaches manhood till a woman's tenderness Is a part of his possession.”

Men Women Possession Tenderness Manhood Men Women

Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

“I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated very badly with something that was called genocide in those days.”

Desire Treated Genocide Supporter Sections Nigeria Federation

Author:Chinua Achebe

“When I was 16, I started publishing all kinds of things in school magazines.”

Kind School All Kinds Magazines Publishing

Author:Margaret Atwood

“If the human mind naturally produces noisome weeds, it also produces flowers and fruit; and ... the best method to mend the soil in general, is for each of us to cultivate his own particular spot.”

Ifs Mind Humans Produce Particular Flower Method Fruit Spots Soil Human Mind Weed

Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

“It is in numberless instances happier to have a false opinion which we believe true, than a true one of which we doubt.”

Believe Opinion Doubt Instance True Ones

Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

“Politics is the food of sense exposed to the hunger of folly.”

Politics Hunger Folly Exposed

Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

“Men often prove the violence of their own prejudices, even by the violence with which they attack the prejudices of other people.”

People Men Violence Prove Prejudice

Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

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