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Life is a kind of sleep: old men sleep longest, nor begin to wake but when they are to die.

Jean de la Bruyere

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Jean de la Bruyere
Age: 50 †
Born: 1645
Born: August 16
Died: 1696
Died: May 10
Aphorist
Essayist
French Moralist
Lawyer
Philosopher
Translator
Writer
Paris
France
Jean de La Bruyere
Kind
Men
Life
Longest
Wake
Begin
Sleep
Dies

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