“Virtue is like precious odors — most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.”
Francis Bacon book Essays
Of Adversity
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“The rich scent of well-balanced soil was like incense.”
Source: Caliban's War (2012), Chapter 7 (p. 76)
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