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In our ideals we unwittingly reveal our vices.
Jean Rostand
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Jean Rostand
Age: 82 †
Born: 1894
Born: October 30
Died: 1977
Died: September 4
Biologist
Historian
Philosopher
Writer
Paris
France
Unwittingly
Reveal
Vices
Ideals
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Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.
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Theories pass. The frog remains.
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Quotations--always inexact. I don't trust people who cannot even copy out.
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God, that checkroom of our dreams.
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It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.
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