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Quotes from Sylva Sylvarum Century X — Francis Bacon

1561–1626 England

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It is true that may hold in these things, which is the general root of superstition; namely, that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and forget and pass over the other.

Sylva Sylvarum Century X (1627)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Francis Bacon (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.