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Quote by Francis Bacon
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. – Francis Bacon

Other quotes by Francis Bacon

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them. – Francis Bacon

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Generosity
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The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and forget and pass over the other. – Francis Bacon

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Superstition
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Other Quotes from
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint…. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting. – Henry David Thoreau

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Books

Reading — the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay. – William Styron

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It often requires more courage to read some books than it does to fight a battle. – Sutton Elbert Griggs

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Books

Never judge a book by its movie. – J.W. Eagan

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He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“I must do something” always solves more problems than “Something must be done.” – Author Unknown

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Dont go away. I dont want to be alone. I cant stand being alone. – Arnold Rothstein

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alone

Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge. – John Charles Polanyi

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Knowledge