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Michel de Montaigne
“Did I know myself less, I might perhaps venture to handle something or other to the bottom, and to be deceived in my own inability; but sprinkling here one word and there another, patterns cut from several
pieces and scattered without design and without engaging myself too far, I am not responsible for them, or obliged to keep close to my subject, without varying at my own liberty and pleasure, and giving up myself to doubt and uncertainty, and to my
own governing method, ignorance.”
Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

Michel de Montaigne
“Let what I here set down meet with correction or applause, it shall be of equal welcome and utility to me [...]And yet, always submitting to the authority of their
censure, which has an absolute power over me, I thus rashly venture at everything.”
Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

Paul        Howard
“It's like rock n' roll for your eyes.”
Paul Howard, Vagrants in Paradise: a travel-humor essay