"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."
-Francis Bacon
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"God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.“
-Francis Bacon
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"There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health."
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"There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool."
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"Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom."
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"Wise men make more opportunities than they find."
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"A prudent question is one-half of wisdom."
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