Michel de Montaigne: In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page-boy, the blunder of a serva

In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the pra — Michel de Montaigne

In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page-boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk— they are all part of the curriculum.

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Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations. — Michel de Montaigne
There is as much difference between us and ourselves as between us and others. — Michel de Montaigne
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The road to ignorance is paved with good editions. Only the illiterate can affor — George Bernard Shaw
It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what on — Oscar Wilde
And he that will not apply New Remedies, must expect New Evils: for Time is the — Francis Bacon
The foolish aim at wealth. — Alī ibn Abī Ṭālib
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The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whol — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe