"Is it not a noble farce wherein kings, republics, and emperors have for so many ages played their parts, and to which the vast universe serves for a theatre?"
— World

January 1, 1970

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Michel de Montaigne, Of the Most Excellent Men; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 911-17.