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To disdain today is to prove that yesterday has been misunderstood.

Maurice Maeterlinck

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Maurice Maeterlinck
Age: 86 †
Born: 1862
Born: August 29
Died: 1949
Died: May 5
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Philosopher
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Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck
Disdain
Misunderstood
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Yesterday
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Today

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In any event, a truth that disheartens, because it is true, is still of far more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.
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