maggot quotes

A maggot must be born i'the rotten cheese to like it.

-Eliot, George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans
  Adam Bede, ch.32.

L'homme est bien insense¤  . Il ne s c° auroit forger un ciron, et forge des Dieux a'   douzaines. Man is quite insane. He wouldn't know how to make a maggot, and he makes Gods by the dozen.

-Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de
  Essais, bk.2, ch.12 (translated by Charles Cotton).

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