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For a crowd is not company and faces are but a gallery of pictures and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

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Francis Bacon
Age: 65 †
Born: 1561
Born: January 22
Died: 1626
Died: April 9
Astrologer
Former Lord Chancellor
Judge
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Philosopher
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Writer
Francis Bacon Saint Albans
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1st Viscount St. Alban
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Viscount St. Alban
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