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I agree that we should work and prolong the functions of life as far as we can, and hope that Death may find me planting my cabbages, but indifferent to him and still more to the unfinished state of my garden. - Michel de Montaigne
Attribution: Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592), French essayist. “That to Philosophize Is to Learn to Die,” The Essays (Les Essais), bk. I, ch. 20, Abel Langelier, Paris (1595).

Categories: Death, Essayist, Gardens And Gardening, Work

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