Saturday, December 29, 2012

Quote of the Day (Elizabeth I, on Anger)



“Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.”—Queen Elizabeth I quoted in Sir Francis Bacon, Essays and Apothegms of Francis Lord Bacon, edited by John Buchan (1894)


(The image accompanying this post is the Pelican Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I, by Nicolas Hilliard, ca. 1575)
 

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