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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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In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues. – Francis Bacon

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Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory. – Francis Bacon

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When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative. – Francis Bacon

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Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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The surest cure for vanity is loneliness. – Thomas Wolfe

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Gray hairs are deaths blossoms. – English Proverb

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As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves. – Daniel J. Boorstin

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