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Without love, a crowd is not company and talk is empty noise
Drawn from what Francis Bacon said
What Francis Bacon actually said
- Francis Bacon English philosopher, lawyer and statesman (1561 to 1626)
For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Where this was said
↗The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral (1625 edition)gutenberg.org
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