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Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.
Nicolas Chamfort
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Nicolas Chamfort
Age: 53 †
Born: 1741
Born: April 6
Died: 1794
Died: April 13
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The great always sell their society to the vanity of the little.
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If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.
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The best philosophical attitude to adopt towards the world is a union of the sarcasm of gaiety with the indulgence of contempt.
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To enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to yourself or others this is true morality.
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Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.
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In the fine arts, as in many other things, we know well only what we have not learned.
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