The speaking in a perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but love. - Francis Bacon

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If it is not truthful and not helpful, don't say it. If it is truthful and not helpful, don't say it. If it is not truthful and helpful, don't say it. If it is truthful and helpful, wait for the right time.

Francis Bacon

The speaking in a perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but love.

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The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.

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Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

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It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.

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Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.

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