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Most Quotes by Nicolas Chamfort
- The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.
- Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.
- Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and…
- Most anthologists of poetry or quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters, first picking the best and ending by eating everything.
- Of lies, false modesty is the most decent.
- At the sight of what goes on in the world, the most misanthropic of men must end by being amused, and Heraclitus must die laughing.
- Of all days, the day on which one has not laughed is the one most surely wasted.
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