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'T is one and the same Nature that rolls on her course, and whoever has sufficiently considered the present state of things might certainly conclude as to both the future and the past.

'T is one and the same Nature that rolls on her course, and whoever has sufficiently considered the present state of things might certainly conclude as to both the future and the past.

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
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Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)

Book ii. Chap. xii. Apology for Raimond Sebond.

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