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

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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Age appears to be best in four things old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. – Francis Bacon

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He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?. – Francis Bacon

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It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The Return we reap from generous actions is not always evident. – Francesco Guicciardini

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It is melancholy to reflect that Mankind has suffered more from ill-judged philanthropy than from calculated malice. The road to Hell is no less harrowing for being paved with good intentions. – Giles St. Aubyn

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You must be willing to do the things today others dont do in order to have the things tomorrow others wont have. – Les Brown

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