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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
1580·Bordeaux, France

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

Read the passage→Book I, Chapter XIV: That the Taste of Good and Evil Depends in Great Measure upon the Opinion We Have of Them
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