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Few men have been admired of their familiars. - Michel de Montaigne Attribution: Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592), French essayist. Essays, bk. 3, ch. 2 (1595), trans. by John Florio (1603). Madame de Corneul (1605-1694) is attributed with the saying, “No man is a hero to his valet.”

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