"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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"Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.“
-Nicolas Chamfort
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"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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"Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life."
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"One must not hope to be more than one can be."
-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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"Nature never said to me: Do not be poor still less did she say: Be rich her cry to me was always: Be independent."
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-Babatunde Olatunji
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"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."
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"Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages."
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"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality."
-Desmond Tutu
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"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."
-H. G. Wells
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