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• In truth, the English do add here and there other words when speaking, but it is obvious that Goddamn is the basis of their language.

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• We drink when we are not thirsty and make love at any time, Madam. These are the only things which distinguish us from other animals.

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• Of all serious things, marriage is the most farcical.

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• Vices, indulgences, these are the things which never change but which disguise themselves in a thousand forms beneath the mask of prevailing morals: to lift off this mask and expose them, this is the noble task of the person who devotes himself to the theatre.

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• We hardly interest ourselves in the affairs of others when things are going well for ourselves.

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• I am quick to laugh at everything so as not to be obliged to cry.

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• Today, what is not worth being said is sung.

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• Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

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• Vilify, Vilify, some of it will always stick.

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• It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

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• If a thing isn’t worth saying, you sing it.

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• I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.

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• Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at all seasons, madam: that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals.

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• Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more.

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• As long as I don’t write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.

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• The same wind that extinguishes a light can set a brazier on fire.

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Pierre Beaumarchais (16)

Birth:	24th January, 1732
Death:	18th May, 1799
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Watchmaker, Diplomat, Financier, Inventor, Musician, Publisher, Revolutionary, Satirist, Playwriter

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