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...it is a sneaking piece of cowardice for authors to put feigned names to their works, as if, like bastards of their brain, they were afraid to own them.
Desiderius Erasmus
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Desiderius Erasmus
Age: 69 †
Born: 1466
Born: November 6
Died: 1536
Died: July 12
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He who shuns the millstone, shuns the meal.
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Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you've trained them.
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Fools are without number.
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Bidden or unbidden, God is present.
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In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
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