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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.

Francis Bacon

Suspicions amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they ever fly by twilight.

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Knowledge is power.

Francis Bacon

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

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Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

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All rising to great place is by a winding stair.

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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

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A lie faces God and shrinks from man.

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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

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