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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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What one knows best is ... what one has learned not from books but as a result of books, through the reflections to which they have given rise.
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We gild our medicines with sweets why not clothe truth and morals in peasant garments as well?
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It's a question of prudence. Nobody has a high opinion of fishwives but who would dare offend them while walking through the fish market.
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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.
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Egotism is the tongue of vanity.
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