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Death happens but once, yet we feel it every moment of our lives it is worse to dread it than to suffer it.
Jean de la Bruyere
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Jean de la Bruyere
Age: 50 †
Born: 1645
Born: August 16
Died: 1696
Died: May 10
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French Moralist
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