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If it wasn't for me, I'd do brilliantly.

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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
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Man reaches each stage of his life as a novice.
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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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Nearly all men are slaves for the same reason that the Spartans assigned for the servitude of the Persians -- lack of power to pronounce the syllable, No. To be able to utter that word and live alone, are the only means to preserve one's freedom and one's character.
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Every woman in choosing a lover takes more account of the way in which other women regard the man than of her own.
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It is with happiness as with watches: the less complicated, the less easily deranged.
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Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness.
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A good number of works owe their success to the mediocrity of their authors' ideas, which match the mediocrity of those of the general public.
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The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public.
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Egotism is the tongue of vanity.
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