Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a littl…

Francis Bacon
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Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall. ✨ Francis Bacon, David Mallet (1740). The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author, p.332
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