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Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

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Does not science prove that there is no Creator? ↗

— Paul Moody

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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man's estate. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

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The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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