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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

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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Reading
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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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If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient in them, we shall end in certainties. – Francis Bacon

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Certainty
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Other Quotes from
Wealth
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The rich man has his motor car,
His country and his town estate
He smokes a fifty-cent cigar
And jeers at fate.
Yet though my lamp burn low and dim,
Though I must slave for livelihood,
Think you that I would change with him?
You bet I would! – Franklin Pierce Adams

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Wealth

After a rich man gets rich, his next ambition is to get richer. – Proverb

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Wealth

A penny is a lot of money, if you have not got a penny. – Yiddish Proverb

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Wealth

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

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Wealth

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A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning. – Honore de Balzac

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Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the days work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain. – Frank Lloyd Wright

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The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesnt know what war is except from television. – Sophia Loren

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