Bacon Spent

Famous quotes containing the words bacon and/or spent:

“It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)

“Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter- writing.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)