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A good marriage ... is a sweet association in life: full of constancy, trust, and an infinite number of useful and solid services and mutual obligations.
Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne
Age: 59 †
Born: 1533
Born: February 28
Died: 1592
Died: September 13
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Miquèu Eiquèm de Montanha
Miqueu Eiquem de Montanha
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For table-talk, I prefer the pleasant and witty before the learned and the grave in bed, beauty before goodness.
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It costs an unreasonable woman no more to pass over one reason than another they cherish themselves most where they are most wrong.
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