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Good fame is like fire when you have kindled you may easily preserve it but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

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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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