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“I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“Piety practised in solitude, like the flower that blooms in the desert, may give its fragrance to the winds of heaven, and delight those unbodied spirits that survey the works of God and the actions of men; but it bestows no assistance upon earthly beings, and however free from taints of impurity, yet wants the sacred splendour of beneficence.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
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