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People would never fall in love if they hadn't heard love talked about.
Francois de La RochefoucauldAbout author
- Author's profession: Writer
- Nationality: french
- Born: September 15, 1613
- Died: March 17, 1680
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Speaking the words he had been taught, directing them no longer upward but to the earth on which he knelt, he prayed: 'For what we are about to receive make us truly thankful.' ... he... felt his heart suddenly flow over with thankfulness... like a gush of warm water... All that remains is to live here quietly for the rest of my life, eating food that my own labour has made the earth to yield. All that remains is to be a tender of the soil.
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