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I speak the truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older

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“Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom”

Michel de Montaigne

“On the highest throne in the world, we still sit only on our own bottom”

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