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...subject: for example, Socrates' "Let him that would move the world first move himself and Francis Bacon's "It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear: and yet that is commonly the case of Kings." Quite possibly, in his determination to cover all the subjects in his...

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...exoduster, a person who beats a hasty retreat. * FRIGHTFUL WORDS The World's Greatest Gathering of Phobias It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear. — FRANCIS BACON Everyone fears something, and for whatever you dread, there is, or can be, a phobia....

..."Acquaintance with Knaves"; and on the same page the observation— one might think, a truism— that "It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire, and many things to fear," meets the retort, "He who has few things to desire cannot have many to fear." And when Bacon, writing...