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Nicolas-Charles-Joseph Trublet
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“To select well among old things is almost equal to inventing new ones.”
Nicolas-Charles-Joseph Trublet (1697–1770) said by 1770 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in J. de Finod (ed.) A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (New York: D. Appleton and Co, 1902) p. 7
“In love, if inconstancy gives some pleasure, constancy alone gives happiness.”
Nicolas-Charles-Joseph Trublet (1697–1770) said by 1770 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported in J. de Finod (1902) p. 234