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The desire to be singular and to astonish by ways out of the common seems to me to be the source of many virtues.

Source: Letters of Madame de Sevigne to Her Daughter and Friends, 1811.
-- Marie de Sevigne, (Feb 5 1626-1696), French diarist; She was a prolific correspondent whose 1700 letters to her daughter reflected the social history of the reign of Louis XIV.

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