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• We cannot command nature except by obeying her. -- Sir Francis Baco
• I managed to say, "Sorry," and no more. I knew that he disliked me to cry.
  This time he said, watching me, "On some occasions it is better to weep....
• Sir Henry Wotton used to say that critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Apothegms, No, 64...
• Alonso of Aragon was wont to say in commendation of age, that age appears to be best in four things,--old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Apothegms, No, 97...
• Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. -- Francis Baco
• An Hacker there was, one of the finest sort Who controlled the system
  graphics was his sport. A manly man, to be a wizard able...
• Pyrrhus, when his friends congratulated to him his victory over the Romans under Fabricius, but with great slaughter of his own side, said to them, "Ye
  but if we have such another victory, we are undone....
• Like the strawberry wives, that laid two or three great strawberries at the mouth of their pot, and all the rest were little ones.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Apothegms, No, 54...