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“The only two good things in life are doing mathematics and teaching it.”
La vie n'est bonne qu'à deux choses : à faire des mathématiques et à les professer. <br class="br">quoted by François Arago in Notices biographiques, Volume 2 http://books.google.fr/books?pg=PA662&id=ZzNLAAAAYAAJ#v=onepage&q&f=false, 1854, p. 662.
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