Quotemeal: Sep. 20th, 2004

Monday, September 20, 2004

"No pleasure is comparable to standing on the vantage-ground of truth."
— Francis Bacon

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Illustration of Francis Bacon — "No pleasure is comparable to standing on the vantage-ground of truth."

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