Source: How to Live, or, A Life of Montaigne in one Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer (2010), p. 37.
“Many good writers, from Montaigne to Mencken, have been impolitic, colicky, or sassy.”
Jesus, Jews and the Shoah: A Moral Reckoning by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen (2003)
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