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We make, methinks, a mistake

gabrielsmy essays and papers 25 Sep 201328 May 2026

we do not enough
trust
Heaven
with our affairs, and
pretend to
more
from
our
own
con
duct t
ha
n appertains to us

From Montaigne’s essay On Physiognomy. The layout comes via the freeware text-generation program JanusNode, set to ‘eecummingsfy’. By Chris Westbury.

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