The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight ple…

Michel de Montaigne
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The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure; neither the greatest captains nor the greatest philosophers have disdained the use or science of eating well. ✨ Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne.
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To behave rightly, we ourselves should never lay a hand on our servants as long as our anger lasts. Things will seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down. ✨ Michel de Montaigne (1958) … ▶
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Since we cannot match it let us take our revenge by abusing it.
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The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure; neither the greatest captains nor the greatest philosophers have disdained the use or science of eating well. ✨ Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne.

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