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Nicolas Chamfort - Few people are prepared to use...

Few people are prepared to use their reason without fear or favor, or bold enough to apply it relentlessly to every moral, political and social issue: to kings and ministers, to men in high places ... And if we don't, we're doomed to remain mediocre. (Nicolas Chamfort)

Few people are prepared to use their reason without fear or favor, or bold enough to apply it relentlessly to every moral, political and social issue: to kings and ministers, to men in high places ... And if we don't, we're doomed to remain mediocre.

Nicolas Chamfort

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