Michel de Montaigne quote: This emperor was arbiter of the whole world at nineteen, and yet would have a man to be thirty before ...

This emperor was arbiter of the whole world at nineteen, and yet would have a man to be thirty before he could be fit to determine a dispute about a gutter.

~ Michel de Montaigne ~

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