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Wives are young mens mistresses, companions for middle age, and old mens nurses. – Francis Bacon

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As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time. – 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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I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist – although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me. – Isabel Allende

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All diseases run into one, old age. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age. – Albert Einstein

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