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Quote by Francis Bacon
Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for gr

Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. – Francis Bacon

Other quotes by Francis Bacon

Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit. – Francis Bacon

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Vanity
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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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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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History
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Reading
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Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding places in a voluminous writer. – Joseph Addison

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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander. – Isaac Asimov

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Reading

The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is. – James Barrie

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There is no robber worse than a bad book. – Italian Proverb

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The automobile is technologically more sophisticated than the bundling board, but the human motives in their uses are sometimes the same. – Charles M. Allen

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I love talking about women because they are a constant study and youre always learning. – Mario Lopez

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First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success. – Anne Rice

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Instead of organizing and cleaning my house, I pin ideas on how to organize and clean my house. The irony is not lost on me. – Author unknown (but obviously a Pinterest user with a sense of humor)

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Housework