• It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

    Francis Bacon: It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.
    'The Advancement of Learning' (1605) bk. 2, ch. 23, sect. 45

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