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It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.
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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- Life and Literature (copyright 1910) (1910 AD)
Number 151 · printed citation: Montaigne
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