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The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied. – Francis Bacon

Other quotes by Francis Bacon

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses. – Francis Bacon

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Men
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Francis Bacon
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He that gives good advice, builds with one hand he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other. – Francis Bacon

Category:
good
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Francis Bacon
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We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do. – Francis Bacon

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Philosophy
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Francis Bacon
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Other Quotes from
Wealth
category

Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is. – Jean Anouilh

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Wealth

Of the wealth of the world each has as much as they take. – Italian Proverb

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Wealth

The rich man has his motor car,
His country and his town estate
He smokes a fifty-cent cigar
And jeers at fate.
Yet though my lamp burn low and dim,
Though I must slave for livelihood,
Think you that I would change with him?
You bet I would! – Franklin Pierce Adams

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Wealth

After a rich man gets rich, his next ambition is to get richer. – Proverb

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Wealth

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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity. – Calvin Coolidge

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