“This poor world, the object of so much insane attachment, we are about to leave; it is but misery, vanity, and folly; a phantom, — the very fashion of which "passeth away."”

— François Fénelon

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 206.

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Catholic bishop 1651–1715

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