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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

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God almighty first planted a garden: and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasure. – Francis Bacon

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Gardens
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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other. – Francis Bacon

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Death
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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is. – Francis Bacon

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Humor
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Other Quotes from
Reading
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Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors. – Joseph Addison

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Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear. – E.S. Barrett

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Reading

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library. – Jane Austen

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Reading

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. – Mortimer J. Adler

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Reading

Random Quotes

The doctor asked what my diet was like and I had to sit down and realize its not normal, and hadnt been normal for about 20 years. – Carre Otis

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Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you. – Herbert Beerbohm Tree

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Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies. – Albert Camus

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Life

Anybody who has gone through a life-changing experience will tell you there is a different understanding of what is real and what is important, and when you are going through different moments, you can reflect and go, I have been through worse. – Delta Goodrem

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Experience