It was such love as Michael Angelo had known, and Montaigne, and Winckelmann, and Shakespeare himself.

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The pleasures of reading have been the special province of essayists from Montaigne onwards.

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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.

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Montaigne once wrote that in treating his subjects, he sometimes merely licked them, sometimes scraped their surfaces, and sometimes pinched them to the bone.

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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.

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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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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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