There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.…

Michel de Montaigne
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly. ✨ Michel de Montaigne (1958). Complete Essays, p.721, Stanford University Press
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There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly. ✨ Michel de Montaigne (1958). Complete Essays, p.721, Stanford University Press

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