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There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.
Approximate author period: c. 1562 AD · renaissance
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- Michael De Montaigne
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- Approximate author period: c. 1562 AD · renaissance
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
Book iii. Chap. ix. Of Vanity.
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