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• I am reading Henry James ... and feel myself as one entombed in a block of smooth amber.
  -- Virginia Woolf...
• Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words or in good order.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Of Discourse...
• Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconvenience
  whence it is bad in council though good in execution. -- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)...
• There webs were spread of more than common size, And half-starved spiders prey'd on half-starved flies.
  -- Charles Churchill (1731-1764), The Prophecy of Famine, Line 327...
• I had to face my fear. That was more important than just going on living.
  -- Jon Pertwee's Doctor, PLANET OF THE SPIDERS...
• A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
  -- Francis Bacon, English philosopher (1561-1626)...
• Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion. -- Francis Baco
• Knowledge is power.--Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.
  -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Meditationes Sacrae, De Haeresibu...
• It's all so painfully empty and lonesome... I don't think I can stand any more of it.
  .. the whole dreadful way we are born, die, and are never missed....