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Revenge is the poor delight of little minds. Juvenal A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
| Francis Bacon | 
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Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.
| Francis Bacon | 
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Silence is the virtue of fools.
| Francis Bacon | 
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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
| Francis Bacon | 
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The most tolerable sort of revenge is for those wrongs which there is no law to remedy.
| Francis Bacon | 
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The ways to enrich are many, most of them foul.
| Francis Bacon | 
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The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.
| Francis Bacon | 
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There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.
| Francis Bacon | 
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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
| Francis Bacon | 
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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
| Francis Bacon | 
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Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education, in the elder part of experience.
| Francis Bacon | 
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Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.
| Francis Bacon | 
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When any of the four pillars of government – religion, justice, counsel and treasure – are mainly shaken or weakened, men had need to pray for fair weather.
| Francis Bacon | 
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Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age and old men’s nurses.
| Francis Bacon | 
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Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
| Francis Bacon | 
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