Sir Edmund Bacon

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“‘Shall we fight or shall we fly?
Good Sir Richard, tell us now,
For to fight is but to die!”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

“Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.”
—Sir Edmund Leach (20th century)

“What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)