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By Francis Bacon
Bacon's 'Essayes' are universally recognized as masterworks of style and profundity, and nearly all have contributed phrases that have since become proverbial. The phrase ‘hostages to fortune’ was coined by Bacon in his essay ‘Of Marriage and Single Life,’ while ‘Jesting Pila…
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