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• 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)...
• A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
  -- Francis Bacon, English philosopher (1561-1626)...
• The heart is wiser than the intellect.
• A man should never be ashamed to admit he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
  -- Pope...
• Between two hawks, which flies the higher pitch; Between two dogs, which hath the deeper mouth
  Between two blades, which bears the better tempe...
• Atheism is rather in the life than in the heart of man. -- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
• Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man.
  How's that again? I missed something. -- Robert A. Heinlei...