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Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.

Source: Essays, bk. 3, ch. 5, Upon Some Verses of Virgil (1588, tr. by John Florio).
-- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, (Feb 28 1553-1592), French essayist, courtier; His Essais (Essays) established a new literary form, and often used quotations from classical writers.


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