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[On vanity:] The nose of Cleopatra: if it had been shorter, the face of the earth would have changed.

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Blaise Pascal
Age: 39 †
Born: 1623
Born: June 19
Died: 1662
Died: August 19
French Moralist
Mathematician
Philosopher
Physicist
Statistician
Theologian
Writer
Clarmont-Ferrand
Pascal
Louis de Montalte
Amos Dettonville
Dettonville
Paskal Blez
Face
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Cleopatra
Earth
Shorter
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Noses
Vanity
Changed
Beauty

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