But it is not enough that our education does not spoil us; it must, moreover, alter us for the better.
Michel de Montaigne
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- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Essays (1877 edition; original essays first published 1580), Book I, Chapter XXIV, Of Pedantry. Translated by Charles Cotton; edited by William Carew Hazlitt. https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3600/pg3600-images.html
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