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Date: 1620
"[A]s an uneven mirror distorts the rays of objects according to its own figure and section, so the mind, when it receives impressions of objects through the sense, cannot be trusted to report them truly"
preview | full record— Bacon, Sir Francis, Lord Verulam (1561-1626)
