Francis Bacon Quote

It is scarce possible at once to admire and excel an author, as water rises no higher than the reservoir it falls from.

Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical (1917)

It is scarce possible at once to admire and excel an author, as water rises no higher than the reservoir it falls from.

It is scarce possible at once to admire and excel an author, as water rises no higher than the reservoir it falls from.

It is scarce possible at once to admire and excel an author, as water rises no higher than the reservoir it falls from.

It is scarce possible at once to admire and excel an author, as water rises no higher than the reservoir it falls from.