Quote by Francis Bacon
Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution,

Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit. – Francis Bacon

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Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people – Francis Bacon

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If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient in them, we shall end in certainties. – Francis Bacon

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Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies. – Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms. – Elizabeth Bowen

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Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics. – Lord Chesterfield

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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay. – François de la Rochefoucauld

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