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“It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.”
Francis Bacon Sr.
“Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.”
“A prudent question is one half of wisdom.”
“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.”
“It is impossible to love and to be wise.”
“I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.”
“The job of the artist is to deepen the mystery”
“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is”
“Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.”
“The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.”