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The perpetual work of your life is but to lay the foundation of death.
Michel de Montaigne
Essays (1580–88)
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
Cole Porter
Michel de Montaigne
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Born:
February 28, 1533
Died:
September 13, 1592
(aged 59)
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