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Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.

Francois Fenelon

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Francois Fenelon
Age: 63 †
Born: 1651
Born: August 6
Died: 1715
Died: January 7
Catholic Priest
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François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon
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abbé de Fénélon
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