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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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Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. – Francis Bacon

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