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This idea is more surely understood by interrogation; WHAT DO I KNOW? which I bear as my motto with the emblem of a pair of scales. - Michel de Montaigne
Attribution: Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592), French essayist. “Apology for Raimund Sebond,” p. 526, The Essays of Montaigne, vol. I, trans. by E.J. Trechmann, Oxford University Press, New York and London (n.d.). Montaigne’s motto, “Que sçay-je?”

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