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It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

Approximate author period: c. 1844 AD · industrial

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Charles Baudelaire
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Approximate author period: c. 1844 AD · industrial
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1821 to 1867; Wikidata Q501, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q501 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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