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It is not an event it is a piece of news.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Age: 84 †
Born: 1754
Born: February 13
Died: 1838
Died: May 17
Catholic Priest
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War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.
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Wherever there's trouble, look for a priest.
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I found there a country with thirty-two religions and only one sauce.
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It is the beginning of the end. [Fr., C'est le commencement de al fin.]
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She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.
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Suave molecules of Mocha stir up your blood, without causing excess heat the organ of thought receives from it a feeling of sympathy work becomes easier and you will sit down without distress to your principal repast which will restore your body and afford you a calm, delicious night.
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Politics is the systematic cultivation of hatred.
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Whoever did not live in the years neighboring 1789 does not know what the pleasure of living means. [Fr., Qui n'a pas vecu dans les annees voisines de 1789 ne sait pas ce que c'est le palisir de vivre.]
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Society is divided into two classes: the shearers and the shorn. We should always be with the former against the latter.
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A clever woman often compromises her husband a stupid woman only compromises herself.
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Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.
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What I have been taught, I have forgotten what I know, I have guessed.
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Regimes may fall and fail, but I do not.
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What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.
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A married man with a family will do anything for money.
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God gave humans language so they could conceal their thoughts from one another.
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Nothing succeeds so well as success.
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