I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
Michel de Montaigne
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- Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.
- 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.
- My trade and art is to live.
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