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Every ideal comes from us as do all the amenities of life, in order to make our existence as simple reproducers, for which divine Providence solely intended us, less monotonous and less hard.

Every ideal comes from us as do all the amenities of life, in order to make our existence as simple reproducers, for which divine Providence solely intended us, less monotonous and less hard.

Approximate author period: c. 1871 AD · industrial

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Guy de Maupassant
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Approximate author period: c. 1871 AD · industrial
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1850 to 1893; Wikidata Q9327, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9327 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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