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Nicolas Chamfort Quote: “The majority of the books of our time give one the impression of having been manufactured in a day out of books read the day before.”

151. “The majority of the books of our time give one the impression of having been manufactured in a day out of books read the day before.”

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Nicolas Chamfort Quote: “Many men and women enjoy popular esteem, not because they are known, but because they are not known.”

152. “Many men and women enjoy popular esteem, not because they are known, but because they are not known.”

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Nicolas Chamfort Quote: “Narrow waists and narrow minds go together.”

153. “Narrow waists and narrow minds go together.”

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Nicolas Chamfort Quote: “Running a house should be left to innkeepers.”

154. “Running a house should be left to innkeepers.”

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Nicolas Chamfort Quote: “There some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed.”

155. “There some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed.”

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Nicolas Chamfort Quote: “He who disguises tyranny, protection, or even benefits under the air and name of friendship reminds me of the guilty priest who poisoned the sacramental bread.”

156. “He who disguises tyranny, protection, or even benefits under the air and name of friendship reminds me of the guilty priest who poisoned the sacramental bread.”

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Nicolas Chamfort Quote: “Having lots of ideas doesn’t mean you’re clever, any more than having lots of soldiers means you’re a good general.”

157. “Having lots of ideas doesn’t mean you’re clever, any more than having lots of soldiers means you’re a good general.”

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Nicolas Chamfort Quote: “Vain is equivalent to empty; thus vanity is so miserable a thing, that one cannot give it a worse name than its own. It proclaims itself for what it is.”

158. “Vain is equivalent to empty; thus vanity is so miserable a thing, that one cannot give it a worse name than its own. It proclaims itself for what it is.”

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Nicolas Chamfort Quote: “In the library of the world men have hitherto been ranged according to the form, and the binding; the time is coming when they will take rank and order according to their contents and intrinsic merits.”

159. “In the library of the world men have hitherto been ranged according to the form, and the binding; the time is coming when they will take rank and order according to their contents and intrinsic merits.”

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Nicolas Chamfort Quote: “One must not hope to be more than one can be.”

160. “One must not hope to be more than one can be.”

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Nicolas Chamfort Quote: “We must start human society from scratch; as Francis Bacon said, we must recreate human understanding.”

161. “We must start human society from scratch; as Francis Bacon said, we must recreate human understanding.”

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Nicolas Chamfort Quote: “If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.”

162. “If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.”

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Nicolas Chamfort Quote: “Someone has said that to plagiarise from the ancients is to play the pirate beyond the Equator, but that to steal from the moderns is to pick pockets at street corners.”

163. “Someone has said that to plagiarise from the ancients is to play the pirate beyond the Equator, but that to steal from the moderns is to pick pockets at street corners.”

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Nicolas Chamfort Quote: “Were a man to consult only his reason, who would marry? For myself, I wouldn’t marry, for fear of having a son who resembled me.”

164. “Were a man to consult only his reason, who would marry? For myself, I wouldn’t marry, for fear of having a son who resembled me.”

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Nicolas Chamfort Quote: “We must know how to perform the foolishness our characters require.”

165. “We must know how to perform the foolishness our characters require.”

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