Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715–1747) French writer, a moralist
Source: Reflections and Maxims (1746), p. 166.
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Source: The Complete Short Stories of de Maupassant
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Source: Cosmopolis (1892), Ch. 5 "Countess Steno"