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Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.
Nicolas Chamfort
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Nicolas Chamfort
Age: 53 †
Born: 1741
Born: April 6
Died: 1794
Died: April 13
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He who leaves the game wins it.
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If taking vitamins doesn't keep you healthy enough, try more laughter: The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.
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Conscience is a dog that does not stop us from passing but that we cannot prevent from barking.
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Hope is but a charlatan that ceases not to deceive us. For myself happiness only began when I had lost it.
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Life is a malady in which sleep soothes us every sixteen hours it is a palliation death is the remedy.
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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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The great always sell their society to the vanity of the little.
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