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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. ↗

— 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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Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts. And there was a considerable challenge to that here and understandably so. ↗

— Howard Baker

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Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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