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Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well timed.
Jean de La Bruyère
Les Caractères (1688)
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All the perplexities, confusions, and distresses in America arise, not from defects in their constitution or confederation, not from a want of honor or virtue, so much as from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation.
John Adams
Jean de La Bruyère
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Born:
August 16, 1645
Died:
May 11, 1696
(aged 50)
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