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We cannot do without it, and yet we disgrace and vilify the same. It may be compared to a cage, the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair to get out. - Michel de Montaigne
Attribution: Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592), French essayist. Essays, bk. 3, ch. 5 (1595), trans. by John Florio (1603).

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