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• Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Of Studie...
• Has anyone ever tasted an "end"? Are they really bitter?
• Life is a library owned by an author. It has a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.
• 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...
• There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
  -- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626), Of Beauty...
• Anyone who has begun to think places some portion of the world in jeopardy. -- John Dewey
• Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Proposition touching Amendment of Law...
• ivial adj. 1. Too simple to bother detailing. 2.
  Not worth the speaker's time. 3. Complex, but solvable by methods so well known that anyone not utterly cretinous would have thought of them already....
• When one has tasted it, one knows instantly what the angels eat, and what the angels eat is most certainly not what one has just tasted!