He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question when a man should marry, "A young man not yet, an elder man not at all."

Francis Bacon

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Marriage

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Francis Bacon

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Of Marriage and Single Life Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral

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Essay

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English

Time

1625 1620s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

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United Kingdom Europe

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Bacon, Francis "Of Marriage and Single Life." Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall. London: John Haviland, 1625.

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Bacon, Francis. "Essays, or Counsels, Civil and Moral (1625): Of Marriage and Single Life." Francis Bacon: The Major Works, edited by Brian Vickers. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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