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Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete - Montaigne, Michel de · 56 words
You tell us long stories about the race of AEacus, and the battles fought under sacred Ilium; but what to give for a cask of Chian wine, who shall prepare the warm bath, and in whose house, and when I may escape from the Pelignian cold, you do not tell us. Horace, Od., iii. 19, 3.
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