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"This world's a bubble." – Ascribed to Francis Bacon by Thomas Farnaby (1629)
"I stood Among them, but not of them: in a shroud Of thoughts which were not their thoughts." – Lord Byron, "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage", Canto III (1816)
"I learn more from the anatomy of an ant or a blade of grass...than from all the books which have been written since the beginning of time. This is so, since I have begun...to read the book of God...the model according to which I correct the human books which have been copied badly and arbitrarily and without attention to the things that are written in the original book of the Universe." – Tommaso Campanella "Letter of 1607".