Old wood best to burn old wine to drink old friends to trust and old authors to read.

Sir Francis Bacon
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  1. Old wood best to burn old wine to drink old friends to trust and old authors to read.

  2. The best work and of greatest merit for the public has proceeded from the unmarried or childless men.

  3. A healthy body is a guest-chamber for the soul a sick body is a prison.

  4. Reading makes a full man conference a ready man and writing an exact man.

  5. Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

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