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Francis Bacon on Learning

1561–1626 England

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Meditationes sacræ (1597)

To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humour of a scholar.

Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish; then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile; then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced; and lastly his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust.

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