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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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Contact with the world either breaks or hardens the heart.
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Spero Speroni explains admirably how an author who writes very clearly for himself is often obscure to his readers. It is, he says, because the author proceeds from the thought to the expression, and the reader from the expression to the thought.
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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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Be my brother or I will kill you.
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To possess a good cognomen is a long way on the road of success in life.
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A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be.
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Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.
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There is as much expression in the feet as in the hands.
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In love, everything is true, everything is false it is the one subject on which one cannot express an absurdity.
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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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Though we best know and cannot deny our imperfections, it is not for us to lose our self-reliance and true manhood.
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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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In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze.
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A modicum of discord is the very spice of courtship.
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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.
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Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.
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Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.
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