• When we see a man with bad shoes, we say it is no wonder, if he is a shoemaker.

    Michel de Montaigne: When we see a man with bad shoes, we say it is no wonder, if he is a shoemaker.
    "Essays", Book I, Chapter XXIV, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 705-06, 1922.

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