In civil business, what first? Boldness, what second and third? Boldness. And yet boldness is a chi Francis Bacon Quotes
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In civil business, what first? Boldness, what second and third? Boldness. And yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness.

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Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not and a sense of humor to console him for

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A man cannot speak to his son but as a father, to his wife but as a husband, to his enemy but upon terms, whereas a friend may speak as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person.

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