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Put personal ambition away from you, and then you will find consolation in living or in dying, whatever may happen to you.

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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Literary Critic
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Henri-Frederic Amiel
Henri Frédéric Amiel
Whatever
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Away
Happens
Consolation
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Dying
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