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• Virtue is like a rich stone,--best plain set. -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Of Beauty
• Silence is the virtue of fools. -- Francis Baco
• Prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue.
  -- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)...
• Virtue is like precious odours,--most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Of Adversity...
• Beauty is as summer fruits, which are easy to corrupt and cannot la
  and for the most part it makes a dissolute youth, and an age a little out of countenance...
• There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
  -- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626), Of Beauty...
• Beauty without virtue is like a flower without perfume.
• Unmarried men are best friends, best masters, best serva
  but not always best subjects. -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626)...
• Money is like muck, not good unless it be spread. -- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)