I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I… — Quoted

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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.”

Michel de Montaigne · Truth

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Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.

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