Francis Bacon's Quote - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few

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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

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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes adversity not without many comforts and hopes. – Francis Bacon

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In charity there is no excess. – Francis Bacon

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Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice. – Francis Bacon

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Many persons read and like fiction. It does not tax the intelligence and the intelligence of most of us can so ill afford taxation that we rightly welcome any reading matter which avoids this. – Rose Macaulay

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I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. – Anna Quindlen, "Enough Bookshelves," New York Times, 7 August 1991

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No doubt most of you think biography dull reading. You would much rather sit down with a good story. But have you ever thought what a story is? It is nothing but a bit of make-believe biography. – Burton E. Stevenson, A Guide to Biography for Young Readers: American — Me

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Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have. – Alan Bennett

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An actors popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match. – Fred Allen

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We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore the art of suspending verbal and symbolic thinking for a time, somewhat as a courteous audience will stop talking when a concert is about to begin. – Alan Watts

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The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone. – Pope John XXIII

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Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate. – Samuel Johnson

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