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Quote by Francis Bacon
Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by st

Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study. – Francis Bacon

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Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. – Francis Bacon

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I thought he was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises. Speaking Of Winston Churchill – Arthur Balfour

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Mildly talented in a variety of ways but with no genuine ability in any one field, she was like me, the perennial hapless self-amused dilettante, half-worried by the slippage of time but determined to enjoy failure anyway. – Edward Abbey

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Others have done it before me. I can, too. – Corporal John Faunce

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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill. – Charles Caleb Colton

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