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Old age is a tyrant who forbids, upon pain of death, all of the pleasures of youth.
François de La Rochefoucauld
Maximes (1665)
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A novel is like a gland pill - it nips off the cream of my hysterics and gets them running on track in a book where they belong instead of rioting all over my person.
Dawn Powell
François de La Rochefoucauld
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Born:
September 15, 1613
Died:
March 17, 1680
(aged 66)
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