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{{pull quote|This, reader, is an honest book... Had it been my purpose to seek the world's favour, I should have put on finer clothes, and have presented myself in a studied attitude... But it is myself I portray. My imperfections may be read to the life, and my natural form will be herein so far as respect for the public allows... So, reader, I am myself the substance of my book. |
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{{pull quote|Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving. |
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|source=Essays, 1580 (tr. J.M. Cohen) |
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|source=in a letter to his son<ref>[[Walter Isaacson]], ''Einstein: His Life and Universe'' (2007), p. 367.</ref> |
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| “ | This, reader, is an honest book... Had it been my purpose to seek the world's favour, I should have put on finer clothes, and have presented myself in a studied attitude... But it is myself I portray. My imperfections may be read to the life, and my natural form will be herein so far as respect for the public allows... So, reader, I am myself the substance of my book. | ” |
| — Michel de Montaigne, Essays, 1580 (tr. J.M. Cohen) | ||