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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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If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
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A modicum of discord is the very spice of courtship.
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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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Knowledge is boundless,--human capacity, limited.
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The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society
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Love is the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two skins.
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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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One must not hope to be more than one can be.
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There is no history worthy attention save that of free nations the history of nations under the sway of despotism is no more than a collection of anecdotes.
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Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.
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