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Nor do apothegms only serve for ornament and delight, but also for action and civil use, as being the edge tools of speech, which cut and penetrate the knots of business and affairs.
Nor do apothegms only serve for ornament and delight, but also for action and civil use, as being the edge tools of speech, which cut and penetrate the knots of business and affairs.
Approximate author period: c. 1593 AD · renaissance
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- Francis Bacon
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- Approximate author period: c. 1593 AD · renaissance
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- Pearls of Thought (1881) (1881 AD)
Page 14 · printed citation: Bacon · subject: Apothegms
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