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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.
Francis Bacon
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Francis Bacon
Age: 65 †
Born: 1561
Born: January 22
Died: 1626
Died: April 9
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There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death . . . Revenge triumphs over death love slights it honor aspireth to it grief flieth to it.
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Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.
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Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented.
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But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, to be but an untimely anticipation of that which is proper to follow a man, and not to go along with him.
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