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The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains and it is sometimes base, and by indignities men come to dignities. The standing is slippery, and the regress is either a downfall, or at least an eclipse.
Francis Bacon
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Francis Bacon
Age: 65 †
Born: 1561
Born: January 22
Died: 1626
Died: April 9
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I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment.
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Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.
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