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“Paris: a city of pleasures and amusements where four-fifths of the people die of grief.”
—Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort (1741–1794)
“Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact.”
—Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort (1741–1794)