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There are persons whose only merit consists in saying and doing stupid things at the right time, and who ruin all if they change their manners.
There are persons whose only merit consists in saying and doing stupid things at the right time, and who ruin all if they change their manners.
Approximate author period: c. 1646 AD · renaissance
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- Francis, Duc De La Rochefoucauld
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- Approximate author period: c. 1646 AD · renaissance
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- Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1871 English edition) (1871 AD)
Main maxims, complete printed maxim 156; J. W. Willis Bund and J. Hain Friswell translation; Simpson Low, Son, and Marston,188FleetStreet,1871 (printed imprint spelling retained)
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Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.
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