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When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it and accordingly bend their wits.

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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
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