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Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
Francis Bacon
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Francis Bacon
Age: 65 †
Born: 1561
Born: January 22
Died: 1626
Died: April 9
Astrologer
Former Lord Chancellor
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1st Viscount St. Alban
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Viscount St. Alban
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To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.
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In all superstition wise men follow fools.
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The eye of understanding is like the eye of the sense for as you may see great objects through small crannies or levels, so you may see great axioms of nature through small and contemptible instances.
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Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.
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You see, painting has now become, or all art has now become completely a game, by which man distracts himself. What is fascinating actually is, that it's going to become much more difficult for the artist, because he must really deepen the game to become any good at all.
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