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Essays by Francis Bacon, 1625.
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Deformed persons are commonly even with nature; for as nature hath done ill by them, so do they by nature; being for the most part (as the Scripture saith) void of natural affection; and so they have their revenge of nature.
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Nature is often hidden; sometimes overcome; seldom extinguished.
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Revenge is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
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