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An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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Henri Frederic Amiel
Age: 59 †
Born: 1821
Born: September 27
Died: 1881
Died: May 11
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Henri-Frederic Amiel
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A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.
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