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It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth.

Source: Essays, Of Truth, 1597-1625.
-- 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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