The Original Baconator
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| Portrait of Francis Bacon, by Frans Pourbus(1617) |
"Doth any man doubt that, if there were taken out of men’s minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things full of melancholy and indisposition, unpleasing to themselves?"
- Francis Bacon in his essay, "Of Truth."
I came across this tidbit in a New Yorker article recently and stopped to copy it out.
Francis, how did you get so smart? ouch. Is that my mind shrinking?
