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The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column. ↗

— Dave Barry

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There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool. ↗

— 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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For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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