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Nicolas Chamfort
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Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Nicolas Chamfort?
→ Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.
→ The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live.
→ We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.
→ A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.
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Pick the quote attributed to Nicolas Chamfort.
→ While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.
→ Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate.
→ The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live.
→ We are no longer happy as soon as we wish to be happier.
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Select the quotation attributed to Nicolas Chamfort.
→ Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
→ Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.
→ They say coffee is a slow poison. Slow it must be indeed for I have sipped it for seventy-five years.
→ The basis of a democratic state is liberty.
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One of these may be attributed to Nicolas Chamfort. Which one?
→ There are more people who wish to be loved than there are who are willing to love.
→ Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
→ An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all.
→ An honest man nearly always thinks justly.
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Which one of these belongs to Nicolas Chamfort?
→ It is inconceivable how much wit it requires to avoid being ridiculous.
→ Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.
→ All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
→ No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations.
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