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1 " When I am playing with my cat, who knows whether she have more sport in dallying with me than I have in gaming with her? "
― Michel de Montaigne , Shakespeare's Montaigne: The Florio Translation of the Essays, A Selection
2 " That father may truly be said miserable that holdeth the affection of his children tied unto him by no other means than by the need they have of his help or want of his assistance, "
3 " To die of age is a rare, singular, and extraordinary death, "
4 " have seen no other effects in rods but to make children’s minds more remiss or more maliciously headstrong. "
5 " If it lay in my power to make myself feared, I had rather make myself beloved. "
6 " Nothing doth sooner breed a distaste or satiety than plenty. "