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• It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Of Cunning...
• We take cunning for a sinister and crooked wisdom, and certainly there is a great difference between a cunning man and a wise man, not only in point of honesty but in point of ability.
  -- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)...
• There is a cunning which we in England call "the turning of the cat in the pa
  which is, when that which a man says to another, he lays it as if another had said it to him....
• Self-love is more cunning than the most cunning man in the world.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• The world 's a bubble, and the life of man Less than a span.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- The World...
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• It is well to observe the force and virtue and consequence of discoverie
  and these are to be seen nowhere more conspicuously than in those three which were unknown to the ancients, and of which the origin, though recent, is obscure and ingloriou...
• Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns on water, or but writes in dust.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- The World...
• What then remains but that we still should cry For being born, and, being born, to die?
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- The World...