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• Pyrrhus, when his friends congratulated to him his victory over the Romans under Fabricius, but with great slaughter of his own side, said to them, "Ye
  but if we have such another victory, we are undone....
• The best way to get and keep good people is to give them room to grow.
• The best way to keep good intentions from dying is to execute them.
• Sir Henry Wotton used to say that critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Apothegms, No, 64...
• Alonso of Aragon was wont to say in commendation of age, that age appears to be best in four things,--old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Apothegms, No, 97...
• My Lord St. Albans said that Nature did never put her precious jewels into a garret four stories high, and therefore that exceeding tall men had ever very empty heads.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Apothegms, No, 17...
• 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...
• Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. -- Francis Baco
• Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626)