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Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

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This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

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If you don't have solid beliefs you cannot build a stable life. Beliefs are like the foundation of a building, and they are the foundation to build your life upon. ↗

— Alfred A. Montapert

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I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

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If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks. ↗

— Maria Montessori

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Italy has piled up huge public debt because the successive governments were too close to the life of ordinary citizens, too willing to please the requests of everybody, thereby acting against the interests of future generations. ↗

— Mario Monti

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I was following my muse and I was very fortunate in having good people around me and it turned out to be a pretty good recording in my opinion. ↗

— Ronnie Montrose

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