quote · Words worth keeping
Fortune is not content to do a man one ill turn.
Fortune is not content to do a man one ill turn.
Attribution & collection notes
- Author or tradition
- Francis Bacon
Attribution: attributed - Country attributed
- Not established
A country attribution does not establish the earliest origin. - Historical period
- c. 1593 AD · renaissance
author lifetime midpoint (1561–1626); not necessarily a composition date.
The voice behind the words.
Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.
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