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One must require from each one the duty which each one can perform. Accepted authority rests first of all on reason.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Age: 44 †
Born: 1900
Born: June 29
Died: 1944
Died: July 31
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