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"More powerful than
all poetry
More persuasive than all
science
More profound than all
philosophy
Are the letters of the
alphabet
Twenty six pillars of
strength Upon which our culture rests."
And though nobody should read me, have I wasted time in entertaining myself so many idle hours in so pleasing and useful thoughts? In moulding this figure upon myself, I have been so often constrained to temper and compose myself in a right posture, that the copy is truly taken, and has in some sort formed itself; painting myself for others, I represent myself in a better colouring than my own natural complexion. I have no more made my book than my book has made me: 'tis a book consubstantial with the author, of a peculiar design, a parcel of my life, and whose business is not designed for others, as that of all other books is. ...from The Essays of Montaigne, trans. by Charles Cotton, edited by William Carew Hazlitt, 1877
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