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" The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness. "

Michel de Montaigne

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" Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them. "

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