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Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete - Montaigne, Michel de · 74 words
so were we. but as those who by artificial light put out that of day, so we by borrowed forms and fashions have destroyed our own. And tis plain enough to be seen, that tis custom only which renders that impossible that otherwise is nothing so; for of those nations who have no manner of knowledge of clothing, some are situated under the same temperature that we are, and some in much colder climates.
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