“He was sunshine most always-I mean he made it seem like good weather.”
Mark Twain book Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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“He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.”
— Michel De Montaigne, book Essays
Book II, Ch. 12. Apology for Raimond Sebond
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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