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Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. - Francis Bacon

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. – Francis Bacon

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Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution. – Francis Bacon

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He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. – Francis Bacon

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Silence is true wisdoms best reply. – Euripides

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There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority. – Orison Swett Marden

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