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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.Francis Bacon
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The general root of superstition : namely, that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and forget and pass over the other.Francis Bacon
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For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.Francis Bacon