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Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.

Nicolas Chamfort

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Nicolas Chamfort
Age: 53 †
Born: 1741
Born: April 6
Died: 1794
Died: April 13
Journalist
Philosopher
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Writer
Clarmont-Ferrand
Amusing
Novels
Pleasant
Marriage
Novel
History
Reason
Love

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There is no history worthy attention save that of free nations the history of nations under the sway of despotism is no more than a collection of anecdotes.
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Man reaches each stage of his life as a novice.
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Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.
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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.
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His passions make man live, his wisdom merely makes him last.
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Wrinkles and ill-nature together made a woman hideous.
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He who disguises tyranny, protection, or even benefits under the air and name of friendship reminds me of the guilty priest who poisoned the sacramental bread.
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In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze.
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To possess a good cognomen is a long way on the road of success in life.
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Many men and women enjoy popular esteem, not because they are known, but because they are not known.
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If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
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It is inconceivable how much wit it requires to avoid being ridiculous.
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Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.
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