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• It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.
  -- Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchai...
• Be commonplace and creeping, and you will be a success. -- Pierre de Beaumarchais (1732-1799)
• That all men should be brothers is the dream of people who have no brothers.
  -- Charles Chincholles, "Pensees de tout le monde...
• Je plie et ne romrs pas. (I bend and do not break.) -- Jean de la Fontaine (1621-1695)
• Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at all seasons, madam
  that is all there is to distinguish us from the other animals....
• God save me from my friends. I can protect myself from my enemies. Marshall de Villare
• On a tous un peu peur de l'amour, mais on a surtout peur de souffrir ou de faire souffrir.
  [One is always a little afraid of love, but above all, one is afraid of pain or causing pain.]...