Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
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In things that a man would not be seen in himself, it is a point of cunning to borrow the name of the world as to say, The world says, or There is a speech abroad.Francis Bacon
If money be not thy 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.
Francis Bacon
Books are ships which pass through the vast sea of time.
Francis Bacon
Certainly it is the nature of extreme self-lovers, as they will set an house on fire, and it were but to roast their eggs.
Francis Bacon
A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures.
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Boldness is an ill-keeper of promise.
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