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...it is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more — Francis Bacon

...it is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives...

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Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to — Francis Bacon
Sir Henry Wotton used to say that critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothe — Francis Bacon
Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns the water, or but writes in du — Francis Bacon
Alonso of Aragon was wont to say in commendation of age, that age appears to be — Francis Bacon
Mais la raison est toujours mesquine auprès du sentiment ; l'une est naturelleme — Honoré de Balzac
Tout ce qui plaît a une raison de plaire, et mépriser les attroupements de ceux — Charles Baudelaire
Always do right. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest. — Mark Twain
The contrasts and contradictions that can permanently live peacefully side by si — Albert Einstein
Life hath more awe than death . — Philip James Bailey
arma non servant modum; nec temperari facile nec reprimi potest stricti ensis ir — Seneca
Wisdom enough to leech us of our ill Is daily spun; but there exists no loom To — Edna St. Vincent Millay
It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely — Oscar Wilde