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Quote by Francis Bacon
The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving r

The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it. – Francis Bacon

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Wives are young mens mistresses, companions for middle age, and old mens nurses. – Francis Bacon

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There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother. – Francis Bacon

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Reality is not always probable, or likely. – Jorge Luis Borges

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Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it. – Philip K. Dick

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Belief in God? An afterlife? I believe in rock: this apodictic rock beneath my feet. – Edward Abbey

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Seems like nothing ever brings you back to reality that makes you want to stay there. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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