Quote by Francis Bacon
Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen. - Francis B

Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen. – Francis Bacon

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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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The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding. – Francis Bacon

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Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man. Colossians 4:6 – Bible

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We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men. – Jorge Luis Borges

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The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another mans observation, not overturning it. – Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

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Its a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how many people really want to be operated upon by a surgeon who talks broad cockney? – Eileen Aitkins

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I give away something up to $500 million a year throughout the world promoting Open Society. My foundations support people in the country who care about an open society. Its their work that Im supporting. So its not me doing it. – George Soros

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I have achieved what I wanted to achieve. Im better off at some sort of independent place where they not only like what I produce but also trust me to be the one to produce it. – Keith Olbermann

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Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good. – Benjamin Franklin

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Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come. – Michelangelo

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