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Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.

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Francis Bacon
Age: 65 †
Born: 1561
Born: January 22
Died: 1626
Died: April 9
Astrologer
Former Lord Chancellor
Judge
Lawyer
Philosopher
Politician
Writer
Francis Bacon Saint Albans
Francis Bacon St. Albans
Franciscus Bacon de Verulamio
Franciscus Baconus de Verulamio
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1st Viscount St. Alban
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Viscount Saint Alban
Baron of Verulam Bacon
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Viscount St. Albans Verulam
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Francis Bacon de Verulamius
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Viscount St. Alban
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Innovations, which are the births of time.
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Nuptial love makes mankind friendly love perfects it but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
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He of whom many are afraid ought himself to fear many.
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Death is a friend of ours and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.
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He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task but that is ever good for the public. But he that plots to be the only figure amongst ciphers is the decay of a whole age.
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Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance so Salomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion.
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The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.
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Every person born in the USA is endowed with life, liberty, and a substantial share of the national debt.
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It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
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