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The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

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I quote others only in order the better to express myself. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul, impossible. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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How many condemnations I have witnessed more criminal than the crime! ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do. ↗