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Quote by Nicolas Chamfort
Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novel

Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history. – Nicolas Chamfort

Other quotes by Nicolas Chamfort

It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful. – Nicolas Chamfort

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Art
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It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyze before we can live happily in this world. – Nicolas Chamfort

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Curmudgeonesque
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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. Its a palliative. The remedy is death. – Nicolas Chamfort

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Death
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Other Quotes from
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Happy the people whose annals are blank in history-books. – Thomas Carlyle, Life of Frederick the Great

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History

Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history – revisionist historians is what I like to call them. – George W. Bush

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History

It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons. – Arthur Conan Doyle, Micah Clarke

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History

Throughout human history, the American Idea has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed. – Paul Ryan

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History

Random Quotes

Theres a small club of women who are willing to age. – Debra Winger

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Age

I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise. – John Keats

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Wisdom

Do what you love and the money will follow. – Marsha Sinetar

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Money

I am not afraid of death, I just dont want to be there when it happens. – Woody Allen

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Death