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Quote by Francis Bacon
It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty or to s

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a mans self. – Francis Bacon

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Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. – Francis Bacon

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This is the foundation of all. We are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover, what nature does or may be made to do. – Francis Bacon

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Men should think twice before making widow hood womans only path to power. – Gloria Steinem

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But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous. – Edward Gibbon

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