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• I, who have so much and so universally adored this [greek], "excellent mediocrity," -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap.
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• Few men have been admired by their own domestics.
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• Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book iii, Chap. xi...
• The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mould.
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• The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all
  they will chew our meat for us. -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book ii, Chap....
• He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.
  -- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592) -- Essays, Book ii, Chap. xii, Apology for Raimond Sebond...
• Plato says, "'T is to no purpose for a sober man to knock at the door of the Muse
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