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What if he has borrowed the matter and spoiled the form, as it oft falls out?

What if he has borrowed the matter and spoiled the form, as it oft falls out?

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. viii. Of the Art of Conversation.

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