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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; na

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. – Francis Bacon

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Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse. – Francis Bacon

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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. – Francis Bacon

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And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that. – Lord Acton

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People are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them. – James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son

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Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood? – Carl Jung

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In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour. – Stefan Zweig

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But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education. – Jeffrey Archer

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Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto. – Thomas Hobbes

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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs. – Charles de Gaulle

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