Quote by Francis Bacon
Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress. - Francis Baco

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress. – Francis Bacon

Other quotes by Francis Bacon

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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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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As the person who has health is young, so the person who owes nothing is rich. – Proverb

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You cant take it with you when you go. – Proverb

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The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied. – Francis Bacon

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The rights and interests of the laboring man will be protected and cared for, not by the labor agitators, but by the Christian men to whom God in His infinite wisdom has given control of the property interests of the country. – George Baer

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