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little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth; for a crowd i — Francis Bacon

little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth; for a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

Francis Bacon

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