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Running a house should be left to innkeepers.

Nicolas Chamfort

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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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Real worth requires no interpreter: its everyday deeds form its emblem.
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The contact of two epidermises.
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It is with happiness as with watches: the less complicated, the less easily deranged.
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A modicum of discord is the very spice of courtship.
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Do you think that revolutions are made with rose water?
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If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
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Man reaches each stage of his life as a novice.
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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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It is among uneducated women that we may look for the most confirmed gossips. Goethe tells us there is nothing more frightful than bustling ignorance.
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Spero Speroni explains admirably how an author who writes very clearly for himself is often obscure to his readers. It is, he says, because the author proceeds from the thought to the expression, and the reader from the expression to the thought.
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False modesty is the most decent of all lies.
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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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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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And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead (suicide note)
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A woman is like your shadow follow her, she flies fly from her, she follows.
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Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.
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