https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Wed, 02 Sep 2026 20:51:39 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/bacon-francis/24952/ https://wist.info/bacon-francis/24952/#respond Mon, 14 Apr 2014 13:00:26 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=24952 If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, scientist, author, statesman
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Attributed to Bacon in Alexander Anderson, Laconics: or Instructive Miscellanies, (1827). Attributed to French moralist Pierre Charron (1541-1603) in John Timbs, Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors (1829). See also French saying. ]]> https://wist.info/bacon-francis/24952/feed/ 0 24952