Francis Bacon quote about price from The Essays of Francis Bacon - Fortune is like the market; where many times if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
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Fortune is like the market; where many times if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
 Francis Bacon, The Essays of Francis Bacon (1597). copy citation

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Author Francis Bacon
Source The Essays of Francis Bacon
Topic price fortune market
Date 1597
Language English
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Weblink http://www.gutenberg.org/files/575/575-h/575-h.htm

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“A king, when he presides in counsel, let him beware how he opens his own inclination too much, in that which he propoundeth; for else counsellors will but take the wind of him, and instead of giving free counsel, sing him a song of placebo.
Of Delays FORTUNE is like the market; where many times if you can stay a little, the price will fall. Again, it is sometimes like Sibylla's offer; which at first, offereth the commodity at full, then consumeth part and part, and still holdeth up the price. For occasion (as it is in the common verse) turneth a bald noddle, after she hath presented her locks in front, and no hold taken; or at least turneth the handle of the bottle, first to be received, and after the belly, which is hard to clasp.” source

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