Now, since everything else is furnished with the exact amount of needle and thread required to maintain its being, it is in truth incredible that we alone should be brought into the world in a defective and indigent state, in a state such that we cannot maintain ourselves without external aid. β¨ Michel de Montaigne (1965). Complete Essays, p.166, Stanford University Press
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