[Footnote 300: My author says, etc. The quotation is from _A Considera… — Essays

Essays — Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Footnote 300: My author says, etc. The quotation is from _A Consideration upon Cicero_, by the French author, Montaigne. Montaigne was one of Emerson's favorite authors from his boyhood: of the essays he says, "I felt as if I myself, had written this book in some former life, so sincerely it spoke my thoughts."]

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