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The most useful and honorable science and occupation for a woman is the science of housekeeping. I know some that are miserly, very few that are good managers.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
Autobiographer
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French Moralist
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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When I express my opinions it is so as to reveal the measure of my sight not the measure of the thing.
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I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
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It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.
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