Francis Bacon

A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures.

A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures.

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile;
natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able
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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile;
natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able
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If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to read more

If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.

Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.

I would live to study, and not study to live.

I would live to study, and not study to live.