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It is almost impossible to find those who admire us entirely lacking in taste.

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

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Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Born: 1792
Born: April 6
Poet
Admiration
Entirely
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Taste
Impossible
Almost
Find
Lacking

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