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"Reading makes a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man." -
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Top 5 quotes from Francis Bacon
"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."
"Never exaggerate your faults. Your friends will attend to that."
"Atheism is rather in the life than in the heart of man."
"It is impossible to love and to be wise."
"A prudent question is one-half of wisdom."
Top 5 quotes from Reading, Talking, Writing
"Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets."
"Advice to young writers who want to get ahead without annoying delays: don’t write about Man, write about 'a' man."
"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader."
"Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special."
"If I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud."
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