"Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners."
-Nicolas Chamfort
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"Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.“
-Nicolas Chamfort
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"The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society."
-Nicolas Chamfort
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"Nature never said to me: Do not be poor still less did she say: Be rich her cry to me was always: Be independent."
-Nicolas Chamfort
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"When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws."
-Nicolas Chamfort
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"Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones."
-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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"Tis always morning somewhere in the world."
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