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• It is yet a higher speech of his than the other, "It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Of Adversity...
• Atheism is rather in the life than in the heart of man. -- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
• Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true. -- Francis Baco
• Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Of Studie...
• When an old man marries a young wife, he grows younger - but she grows older.
• Once at a dinner party when he was a young man, Winston Churchill, who at the time had a moustache, was seated next to an older woman.
  She said to him, "Young man, I care neither for your politics nor for your moustache....
• There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic.
  A man's own observation, what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health....
• When I was a young man, I vowed never to marry until I found the ideal woman.
  Well, I found her -- but alas, she was waiting for the ideal man. -- Robert Schuma...
• A man who studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green. -- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)