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No one likes to be pitied for his faults.
Luc de Clapiers
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Luc de Clapiers
Age: 31 †
Born: 1715
Born: August 6
Died: 1747
Died: May 28
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Necessity embitters the evils which it cannot cure.
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Persons of rank do not talk about such trifles as the common people do but the common people do not busy themselves about such frivolous things as do persons of rank.
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It is easy to criticize an author, but difficult to appreciate him.
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If anyone accuses me of contradicting myself, I shall reply I have been wrong once or more often, however I do not aspire to be always wrong.
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The greatest evil that fortune can bring to men is to endow them with feeble resources and yet to make them ambitious.
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