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Michel de Montaigne

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Mr. Sensible learned only catchwords from them. He could talk like Epicurus of spare diet, but he was a glutton. He had from Montaigne the language of friendship, but no friend.
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C. S. Lewis, The Pilgrim’s Regress (1933), p. 176

 
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