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It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole, or to hide herself under some massive tomb, thereby to shun the strokes of fortune. - Michel de Montaigne Attribution: Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592), French essayist. “A Custom of the Isle of Cea,” bk. 2, ch. 3, Essays (1580-1588), trans. by John Florio.

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