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Francis Bacon: Fame is like...

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Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

Source: Essays, 'Of Praise'
-- 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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