Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. M…

Michel de Montaigne
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Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health. ✨ Michel de Montaigne (1946). The essays
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Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health. ✨ Michel de Montaigne (1946). The essays

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