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PHILOSOPHY > philosopher, statesman, essayist > Francis Bacon
It was prettily...
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It was prettily devised of Aesop, `The fly sat upon the axle-tree of the chariot-wheel and said, What a dust do I raise'.
Source: Essays, 54, `Of Vain-glory'
-- 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.