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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), "Of Beauty"
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Silence is the virtue of fools.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
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Results from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations:

Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), Essays: Of Building, 1623
Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), The Advancement of Learning, 1605
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Knowledge is power.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), Religious Meditations, Of Heresies, 1597
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Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.: Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)

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