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“The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.”

Francis Bacon · Men

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Francis Bacon

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

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Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

Nature

Francis Bacon

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

Best

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It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

Power