Francis Bacon's Quote - If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a

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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them. – Francis Bacon

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The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and forget and pass over the other. – Francis Bacon

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Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason. – Francis Bacon

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God almighty first planted a garden: and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasure. – Francis Bacon

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