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Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
– Francis Bacon

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  1. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. – Francis Bacon
  2. Remember some books are meant to be tasted, some books are meant to be chewed and, finally, some books are meant to be swallowed whole. – Robin S Sharma
  3. When everyone hates a person, you should investigate thoroughly, and when everyone loves a person, you should also investigate thoroughly. – Confucius
  4. Some books must be sipped slowly like a strong bourbon. Most books must be devoured more than once because as you age you distill more. – Brandi L Bates
  5. Lady’s mouth tasted like blood and iron all the time now. It tasted like defeat. – Kiersten White
  6. Books must follow sciences, and not sciences b – Francis Bacon
  7. Wil ate without enthusiasm. His bacon tasted like nothing. Like a dead animal, fried. His eggs, aborted chickens. – Max Barry
  8. Most people just want to be left in peace to eat their bacon, not realising that there is no peace behind bacon. – Mango Wodzak
  9. One day, and it may be long off, but one day there will be bacon again. It might be mouse bacon, but that will do for me. – Frank Tayell
  10. Don’t ask me who’s influenced me. A lion is made up of all the lambs he’s digested, and I’ve been reading all my life. – Giorgos Seferis
  11. While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it. – Samuel Johnson
  12. A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time. – Francis Bacon
  13. Wonder is the seed of knowledge – Francis Bacon
  14. A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion – Francis Bacon
  15. Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted …but to weigh and consider. – Francis Bacon
  16. Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read. – Francis Bacon
  17. Where a man cannot fitly play his own part; if he have not a friend, he may quit the stage. – Francis Bacon
  18. The only really interesting thing iswhat happens between two people in a room. – Francis Bacon
  19. Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished. – Francis Bacon
  20. Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed. – Francis Bacon
  21. Money is a great servant but a bad master. – Francis Bacon
  22. A man dies as often as he loses his friends. – Francis Bacon
  23. Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience. – Francis Bacon
  24. Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom. – Francis Bacon
  25. All rising to a great place is by a winding stair. – Francis Bacon
  26. The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power. – Francis Bacon
  27. They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. – Francis Bacon
  28. by indignities men come to dignities – Francis Bacon
  29. REVENGE is a kind of wild justice; which the more man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. – Francis Bacon
  30. For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself. – Francis Bacon
  31. It is a poore Center of a Mans Actions, Himselfe. – Francis Bacon
  32. And the hunger that once chewed at them like a mean dog now seems more like an annoying houseguest who simply refuses to leave. – Dave Boling
  33. I stared you chew down your Swedish meatballs. I hope you could see how you chewed my heart then spit it out – Noor Iskandar
  34. I think this goat must have been fed on old boots,’ Stubble complained as he chewed the last scraps of flesh from the bones littering his stew. – Carl Sargent
  35. And she gave him a melting smile, the glutinous sweetness of which he devoured with the avidity of a diabetic who swallows a fatal spoonful of jam. – John Collier
  36. We’re living in an age in which everything is allowed, and democracy is being devoured and destroyed by that limitless freedom. – Paulo Coelho
  37. It is lonely never to have been loved, only devoured. – Rosemary Sutcliff
  38. It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it to be devoured by worms. – Christiaan Barnard
  39. It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it to be devoured by worms. – Christiaan Barnard
  40. I haven’t devoured a soul in…What month is this? March? – Rick Riordan

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