It was such love as Michael Angelo had known, and Montaigne, and Winckelmann, and Shakespeare himself.
The pleasures of reading have been the special province of essayists from Montaigne onwards.
It is not true, as Michel de Montaigne maintained, that the profit of one man is the damage of another.
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The French essayist Michel de Montaigne was brought up speaking Latin as his first language and as a boy read Ovid's Metamorphoses for fun.
Montaigne once wrote that in treating his subjects, he sometimes merely licked them, sometimes scraped their surfaces, and sometimes pinched them to the bone.
To cut costs, it closed the three major flagships New York, London and Sander's pride, the Paris store on Avenue Montaigne and opened smaller boutiques at less prestigious addresses.
Her first major step was in 1993 when she opened a three-story, 10, 000-square-foot Jil Sander store in Paris in what had been the Vionnet couture house on the Avenue Montaigne.
By his own admission, Fen Montaigne had been fishing only for a few years and only once before for Atlantic salmon when he conceived the idea of fly-fishing his way across Russia in three months.
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If the book is entertaining, it is because Fen Montaigne is a better writer than he is a fisherman, with a sharp eye for character and a gentle awareness of the gulf between his world and the one he is travelling through.
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As he proceeds from Moscow to Murmansk, to the Volga, then across the Urals to Turochak on the edge of the Altai mountains and from there to Lake Baikal, Yakutsk and Kamchatka, Mr Montaigne discovers that as the Russian state disintegrates, more and more people are making a living from poaching.
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Writing in a style that owes as much to Stephen Colbert as it does to Michel de Montaigne, Mr. Taleb divides the world into those who "get it" and everyone else, a world partitioned into heroes (Popper, Hayek, Yogi Berra), those on notice (Harold Bloom, necktie wearers, personal-finance advisers) and entities that are dead to him (the bell curve, newspapers, the Nobel Prize in Economics).
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