• Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

  Voltaire
  French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) 1694-1778
  

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1. themselves
2. which
3. lives
4. raise
5. above
6. ideas

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Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time. by : Voltaire

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