Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man
FRANCIS BACONA prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
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The only really interesting thing is what happens between two people in a room.
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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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There are two ways of spreading light, to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
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The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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For friends, do but look upon good books, they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
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There is no exquisite beauty, without some strangeness in the proportion.
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A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.
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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
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There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
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Silence is the virtue of fools.
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By far the best proof is experience.
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