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• Money is like muck, not good unless it be spread. -- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
• Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Of Death...
• Boldness is a child of ignorance. -- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
• Knowledge is power. -- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
• Rebellions of the belly are the worst. -- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
• Sir Henry Wotton used to say that critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Apothegms, No, 64...
• To read without reflecting, is like eating without digesting. -- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
• Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile
  atural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend....
• A prudent question is one-half wisdom. -- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)