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If people were not wicked I should not mind their being stupid but, to our misfortune, they are both.
George Sand
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George Sand
Age: 71 †
Born: 1804
Born: June 1
Died: 1876
Died: May 8
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Ah! that Senate is a world of ice and darkness! It votes the destruction of peoples as the simplest and wisest thing for its members themselves are moribund.
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