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Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
— Francis Bacon The Collected Works of Sir Francis Bacon
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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
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