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• Prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue.
  -- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)...
• Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
• Silence is the virtue of fools. -- Francis Baco
• Virtue is like a rich stone,--best plain set. -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Of Beauty
• Prosperity is not without many fears and distaste
  and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Of Adversity...
• Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
  -- 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...
• Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. -- Francis Baco
• The ways to enrich are many, and most of them foul.--Francis Bacon (1561-1626)