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Plays, gentlemen, are to their authors what children are to women: they cost more pain than they give pleasure.

Pierre Beaumarchais

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Pierre Beaumarchais
Age: 67 †
Born: 1732
Born: January 24
Died: 1799
Died: May 19
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Businessperson
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Paris
France
Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
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