"Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom."
"If a man's wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores, splitters of hairs."
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Source: Francis Bacon, William Rawley (1858). “The Works of Francis Bacon: Literary and professional works”, p.498
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