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The contact of two epidermises.

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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
Contact
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Society would be a charming affair if we were only interested in one another.
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Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.
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False modesty is the most decent of all lies.
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We justly consider women to be weaker than ourselves, and yet we are governed by them.
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Men of reason have enduredmen of passion have lived.
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In the fine arts, as in many other things, we know well only what we have not learned.
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The new friends whom we make after attaining a certain age and by whom we would fain replace those whom we have lost, are to our old friends what glass eyes, false teeth and wooden legs are to real eyes, natrual teeth and legs of flesh and bone.
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If it wasn't for me, I'd do brilliantly.
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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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In great matters, men behave as they are expected to in little ones, as they would naturally
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Egotism is the tongue of vanity.
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Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.
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Do not suppose opportunity will knock twice at your door.
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Vivre est un maladie dont le sommeil nous soulage toutes les 16 heures. C'est un pallatif. La mort est le remede.
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How many fools does it take to make up a public?
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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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Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors.
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We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.
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