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• Sir Amice Pawlet, when he saw too much haste made in any matter, was wont to say, "Stay a while, that we may make an end the sooner.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Apothegms, No, 76...
• 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...
• The question was once put to him, how we ought to behave to our friend
  and the answer he gave was, "As we should wish our friends to behave to us....
• We should forgive our enemies, but only after they've been taken out and shot.
• We should forgive our enemies, but only after they have been hanged first. -- Heinrich Heine
• We read to say that we have read.