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“Why but Learning would not be made common. Yea but Learning cannot be too common, and the commoner the better. Why but who is not jealous, his Mistresse should be so prostitute? Yea but this Mistress is like ayre, fire, water, the more breathed the clearer; the more extended the warmer; the more drawne the sweeter. It were inhumanitie to coop her up, and worthy forfeiture to conceal here.”

John Florio, The Essayes of Michael, Lord of Montaigne
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The Essayes of Michael, Lord of Montaigne The Essayes of Michael, Lord of Montaigne by John Florio
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