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Every single Act either weakeneth or improveth our Credit with other…
Quote byGeorge Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax · 1633–1695
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Anatomy of an Equivalent (1688), The Anatomy of an Equivalent : from The Complete Works of George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax (1912), ed. Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Clarendon Press p. 123..
English (original)
Every single Act either weakeneth or improveth our Credit with other Men ; and as an habit of being just to our Word will confirm, so an habit of too freely dispensing with it must necessarily destroy it.
— George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
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