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Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort Quotes

"Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem." ~Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort (1741–1794), French writer, wit. Maxims and Considerations, vol. 1, no. 60 (1796, trans. 1926)

"Most anthologists of quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters: first picking the best ones and winding up by eating everything." ~Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort, 1825