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May 16, 2026

"No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth."

Francis BaconFrancis Bacon
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1909 – 1992
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British novelist and journalist, author of the Booker Prize-winning novel "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time."

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