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If our friends do us a service, we think they owe it to us by their title of friend. We never think that they do not owe us their friendship.

Luc de Clapiers

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Luc de Clapiers
Age: 31 †
Born: 1715
Born: August 6
Died: 1747
Died: May 28
Essayist
Military Personnel
Philosopher
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Aix
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Thinking
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Service
Friendship
Friend
Friends
Never
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