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I bequeath my soul to God (…). My body to be buried obscurely. For my name and m — Francis Bacon

I bequeath my soul to God (…). My body to be buried obscurely. For my name and memory , I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and the next age.

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