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Francis Bacon Quotes
Brief author info: Francis Bacon (1561-1626) English philosopher, statesman, essayist.
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Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
Suspicions amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they ever fly by twilight.
Knowledge is power.
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
All rising to great place is by a winding stair.
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
A lie faces God and shrinks from man.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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