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A man should swallow a toad every morning to be sure of not meeting with anything more revolting in the day ahead.
Nicolas Chamfort
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Nicolas Chamfort
Age: 53 †
Born: 1741
Born: April 6
Died: 1794
Died: April 13
Journalist
Philosopher
Playwright
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Clarmont-Ferrand
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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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Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.
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Marriage follows on love as smoke on flame.
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If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
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