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Have you known how to compose your manners? You have done a great deal more than he who has composed books. Have you known how to take repose? You have done more than he who has taken cities and empires.
Have you known how to compose your manners? You have done a great deal more than he who has composed books. Have you known how to take repose? You have done more than he who has taken cities and empires.
Approximate author period: c. 1562 AD · renaissance
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- Michael De Montaigne
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- Approximate author period: c. 1562 AD · renaissance
author lifetime midpoint (1533–1592)
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- Many Thoughts of Many Minds (1896) (1896 AD)
Repose · anthology attribution: Montaigne
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