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There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to. 859
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We can be knowledgable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom. Michel de Montaigne 610
