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• The most wasted day is one in which we have not laughed. -- Sebastien Roch Nicolas Chamfo
• The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
  -- Nicolas Chamfo...
• The only thing that stops God from sending a second Flood is that the first one was useless.
  -- Nicolas Chamfo...
• The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live.
  -- Nicolas Chamford...
• I would advise anyone who wished to obtain a favor from a minister to approach him with a mournful air rather than a lighthearted one.
  No one likes to see those who are happier than himself. -- Nicolas Chamfo...
• Men of reason have endured; men of passion have lived.
  -- Sebastien Roch Nicolas Chamfort (1741-1794) -- Maximes et Pensees (1796)...
• Especially for teenagers!: A little philosophy tends to despise learning
  much philosophy leads men to esteem it....
• To find a friend one must close one eye; to keep him--two. -- Norman Dougla