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There was a young man in Rome that was very like Augustus Caesar; Augustus took knowledge of it and sent for the man, and asked him Was your mother never at Rome? He answered No Sir; but my father was.

Source: Apothegms, no. 87 (1624).
-- 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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