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There Is More Ado To Interpret Interpretations Than To Interpret The Things, And More Books Upon Books Than Upon All Other Subjec
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There is more ado to interpret interpretations than to interpret the
things, and more books upon books than upon all other subjects; we
do nothing but comment upon one another.
-- Michael de Montaigne (1533-1592)
-- Essays, Book iii, Chap. xiii
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I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.
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Let us a little permit Nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.
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There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
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