“I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that ties them together.”

—  Michel De Montaigne, book Essays

Book III, Ch. 12. Of Physiognomy
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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