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It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried.

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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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