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• We are so presumptuous that we would wish to be known by all the world, even by people who shall come after, when we shall be no more; and we are so vain that the esteem of five or six neighbors delights and contents us.

  Pensees (1669)

  Blaise Pascal
  French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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• presumptuous
• neighbors
• delights
• contents
• shall
• after

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