“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.”
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Francis Bacon quotes
5 verified quotes from Francis Bacon, each checked word-for-word against the archive's own full text.
“A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.”
“There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.”
“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
“Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.”