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Marie Anne du Deffand: I do not...

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I do not know why Diogenes * went looking for a man: nothing could happen to him worse than finding one.

Source: Letter to Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, 7 Jul 1763; in Correspondance Inedite, 1859.
-- Marie Anne du Deffand, ( 1697-1780), French intellectual;


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