Our Skin Is Provided As Adequately As Theirs With Endurance Against The Assaults Of The Weathe

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Our skin is provided as adequately as theirs with endurance against the
assaults of the weather: witness so many nations who have not yet tried the
use of any clothes. Our ancient Gauls wore hardly any clothes; nor do the
Irish, our neighbors, under so cold a sky.
-- Montaigne, "Apology for Raymond Sebonde"

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