#which

People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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Ignorance is the softest pillow on which a man can rest his head. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

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Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

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True poetry is similar to certain pictures whose owner is unknown and which only a few initiated people know. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

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I have a very low level of recognition, which is fine by me. ↗

— Dylan Moran

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A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse. ↗

— Thomas More

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