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• Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Of Marriage and Single Life...
• Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of educatio
  in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel....
• There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
  -- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626), Of Beauty...
• Silence is the virtue of fools. -- Francis Baco
• He that hath a trade, hath an estate. -- Ben Frankli
• Unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance
  but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath....
• Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is no
  a sense of humor to console him for what he is. -- Francis Baco...
• Hell hath no pizza (probably no Thai restaurants, either)
• It hath been an opinion that the French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are
  but howsoever it be between nations, certainly it is so between man and man....