"Some books are to be tasted others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted ...but to weigh and consider.
~ Francis Bacon ~












Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted ...but to weigh and consider...
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