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Sir, what does it matter whom I serve, so long as I am right?

Pierre Corneille

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Pierre Corneille
Age: 78 †
Born: 1606
Born: June 6
Died: 1684
Died: October 1
Dramatist
Playwright
Poet
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Long
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Argument
Truth
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Reason
Matter
Right

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