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A person playing with a cat cannot know whether they amuse the cat more than it amuses them
Drawn from what Michel de Montaigne said
What Michel de Montaigne actually said
- Michel de Montaigne French essayist and philosopher (1533 to 1592)
When I play with my cat who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me? We mutually divert one another with our play.
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↗Essays (tr. Charles Cotton, ed. W. C. Hazlitt, 1877)gutenberg.org
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