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Death…openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy.
Francis Bacon
Essays (1625) 'Of Death'
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A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that 'the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.'
Walter Bagehot
Francis Bacon
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Born:
January 22, 1561
Died:
April 9, 1626
(aged 65)
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