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Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Writer
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French
Born:
September 15
,
1613
Died:
March 17
,
1680
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