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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy. - Michel de Montaigne Attribution: Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592), French essayist. “Ceremony at meetings between kings,” The Essays (Les Essais), bk. I, ch. 8, Simon Millanges, Bordeaux, first edition (1580).

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