• It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, and to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance.

    Francis Bacon: It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, and to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance.
    Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.170