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When I am playing with my Cat, who knowes whether she have more sport in dallying with me, than I have in gaming with her? We entertaine one another with mutual apish trickes: If I have my houre to begin or to refuse, so hath she hers.
When I am playing with my Cat, who knowes whether she have more sport in dallying with me, than I have in gaming with her? We entertaine one another with mutual apish trickes: If I have my houre to begin or to refuse, so hath she hers.
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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- My Commonplace Book (third English edition,1921) (1921 AD)
Page 114 · printed citation: Montaigne (Bk. II, ch. 12). · compiler notes excluded
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