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Prosperity doth best...

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Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.

Source: Essays, 5, `Of Adversity'
-- Francis Bacon, (Jan 22 1561-1626), English philosopher, statesman, essayist; He was an early advocate of inductive learning from intensive observation; wrote Novum Organum, 1620.


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