And one might therefore say of me that in this book I have only made up a bunch of other peoples flowers, and that of my own I have only provided the string that ties them together.
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I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
A man of understanding has lost nothing, if he has himself.
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There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.
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What harm cause not those huge draughts or pictures which wanton youth with chalk or coals draw in each passage, wall or stairs of our great houses, whence a cruel contempt of our natural store is bred in them
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No wind favors him who has no destined port.
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True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out of the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who cometh sound out of the school of severity and restraint.
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