François-Pierre-Gonthier Maine de Biran (November 29, 1766 – July 20, 1824), usually known simply as Maine de Biran, was a French philosopher.
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“We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)