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Quote by Francis Bacon
The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more

The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding. – Francis Bacon

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain. – Francis Bacon

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Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. – Francis Bacon

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