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Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things! - Michel de Montaigne Attribution: Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592), French essayist. “A Consideration Upon Cicero,” The Essays (Les Essais), bk. I, ch. 40, Simon Millanges, Bordeaux, first edition (1580).

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