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• Sir Henry Wotton used to say that critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Apothegms, No, 64...
• Cato said the best way to keep good acts in memory was to refresh them with new.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Apothegms, No, 247...
• Pyrrhus, when his friends congratulated to him his victory over the Romans under Fabricius, but with great slaughter of his own side, said to them, "Ye
  but if we have such another victory, we are undone....
• Great hypocrites are the true atheists. -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
• Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
  -- Francis Baco...
• Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration but no rest.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Of Empire...
• Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Of Marriage and Single Life...
• Cosmus, Duke of Florence, was wont to say of perfidious friends, that "We read that we ought to forgive our enemie
  but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends....
• Sir Amice Pawlet, when he saw too much haste made in any matter, was wont to say, "Stay a while, that we may make an end the sooner.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Apothegms, No, 76...