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• I'm not Canadian, although I tend to like their bacon.
• Money is like muck, not good unless it be spread. -- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
• Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
• Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
  -- Francis Baco...
• Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
  -- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)...
• Sir Henry Wotton used to say that critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Apothegms, No, 64...
• To read without reflecting, is like eating without digesting. -- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
• Virtue is like a rich stone,--best plain set. -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Of Beauty
• Virtue is like precious odours,--most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Of Adversity...