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Quote by Francis Bacon
Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue. - Francis B

Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue. – Francis Bacon

Other quotes by Francis Bacon

For my name and memory I leave to mens charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. – Francis Bacon

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Heresy
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Francis Bacon
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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. – Francis Bacon

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Age
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Francis Bacon
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A full cup must be carried steadily. – English Proverb

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Success & Failure

What is a big shot except a little shot that kept on shooting. – Proverb

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Success & Failure

Its simply a matter of doing what you do best and not worrying about what the other fellow is going to do. – John R. Amos

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Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel, our family members and our laborers, our household pets and our household pests. We love them and cage them, admire them and abuse them. And, of course, we cook and eat them. – Jeffrey Kluger

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The diagnosis of homosexuality as a “disorder” is a contributing factor to the pathology of those homosexuals who do become mentally ill…. Nothing is more likely to make you sick than being constantly told that you are sick. – Ronald Gold, c.1975

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I think my parents were happy that Id gone to university and gotten a degree in history so they thought, Well if acting doesnt work for him, he can always become a history teacher or something. Fortunately, the acting worked out. – Derek Jacobi

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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry. – Gustave Flaubert

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