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I love those historians that are either very simple or most excellent.... Such as are between both (which is the most common fashion), it is they that spoil all; they will needs chew our meat for us and take upon them a law to judge, and by consequence to square and incline the story according to their fantasy. - Michel de Montaigne
Attribution: Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592), French essayist. “Of Books,” bk. 2, ch. 10, Essays, trans. by John Florio (1580).

Categories: Essayist, Historians

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