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How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person? - François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld
Attribution: François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680), French writer, moralist. Sentences et Maximes Morales, no. 313 (1678).

Categories: Anecdotes, Moralist, Writer

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