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• Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
  -- Francis Bacon [As anyone who has ever owned a puppy already knows. Ed.]...
• There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
  -- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626), Of Beauty...
• Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Of Studie...
• Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Proposition touching Amendment of Law...
• It [Poesy] was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind by submitting the shews of things to the desires of the mind.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Advancement of Learning, Book ii...
• Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of educatio
  in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel....
• The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
  -- Walter Bagehot (1826-1877) Literary Studie...
• In charity there is no excess. -- Francis Baco
• Knowledge is power. -- Francis Baco