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Quote by Nicolas Chamfort
It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we

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

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Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich. – Nicolas Chamfort

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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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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs. – Charles de Gaulle

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A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people. – Peter McArthur

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When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools. – William Shakespeare, King Lear

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[M]an is a machine made expressly for sorrow; he has only five senses with which to receive pleasure, and suffering comes to him through the whole surface of his body…. The man who does not suffer is an ill-made machine, an imperfect creature… – Claude Tillier (1801–1844), My Uncle Benjamin: A Humorous, Satirical, and

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