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Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
1580·Bordeaux, France

If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.

Read the passage→Book I, Chapter XXVIII: Of Friendship
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