Quote by Francis Bacon
It is not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not

It is not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity. – Francis Bacon

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

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Integrity is what we do, what we say, and what we say we do. – Don Galer

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Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels so good. – Author Unknown

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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking. – Henry Louis Mencken, “Sententiae,” This and That: A Mencken Chrestomathy, 1948

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I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can. – Michel de Montaigne, translated

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