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Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves with railing against it. - Michel de Montaigne Attribution: Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592), French essayist. “Of the Incommodity of Greatness,” bk. 3, ch. 7, Essays, trans. by John Florio (1588).

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