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Pleasure can be supported by an illusion but happiness rests upon truth.
Nicolas Chamfort
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Nicolas Chamfort
Age: 53 †
Born: 1741
Born: April 6
Died: 1794
Died: April 13
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The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
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A woman is like your shadow follow her, she flies fly from her, she follows.
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