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It takes a very deep-rooted opinion to survive unexpressed.
Jean Rostand
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Jean Rostand
Age: 82 †
Born: 1894
Born: October 30
Died: 1977
Died: September 4
Biologist
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We bestow on others praise in which we do not believe, on condition that in return they bestow upon us praise in which we do.
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Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.
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It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
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To say of men that they are bad is to say they are worse than we think we are, or worse than the ideal man whose image we have built up on the basis of a certain few.
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Quotations--always inexact. I don't trust people who cannot even copy out.
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