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• 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...
• Like the strawberry wives, that laid two or three great strawberries at the mouth of their pot, and all the rest were little ones.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Apothegms, No, 54...
• Money is like muck, not good unless it be spread. -- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
• 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....
• Cato said the best way to keep good acts in memory was to refresh them with new.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Apothegms, No, 247...
• 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)
• Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
  -- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)...