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Trouble is a sieve through which we sift our acquaintances. Those too big to pass through are our friends.


Arlene Francis

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FRANCIS BACON Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friend...
FRANCIS BACON The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
FRANCIS BACON For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal,...
FRANCIS BACON Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
FRANCIS BACON All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from...
FRANCIS BACON It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what ...
FRANCIS BACON There be three things which make a nation great and prosperous: a fertile soil, busy workshops, easy...
FRANCIS BACON Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.
FRANCIS BACON Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their f...
FRANCIS BACON Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil...
FRANCIS BACON He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great ent...
FRANCIS BACON An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.
FRANCIS THOMPSON No one will ever shine in conversation, who thinks of saying fine things: to please, one must say ma...
FRANCIS LOCKIER Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desire to attain to what thou art not; for where thou...
FRANCIS QUARLES