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I also know that we must cultivate our garden. For when man was put in the Garden of Eden, he was put there ut operaretur eum, to work which proves that man was not born for rest.
Voltaire
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Voltaire
Age: 84 †
Born: 1694
Born: February 20
Died: 1778
Died: May 30
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