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— Anne-Therese de Marguenat de Courcelles"We live with our defects as with the odors we carry about us: we do not perceive them, but they incommode those who approach us."
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A legislator must know how to take advantage of even the defects of those he wants to govern. The art consists in making others work rather than in wearing oneself out.
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