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How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables? - Michel de Montaigne Attribution: Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592), French essayist. “It Is Folly to Refer Truth or Falsehood to Our Sufficiency,” Essays, bk. 1, ch. 26, trans. by John Florio (1580-1588).

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