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A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Court
War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Men
War
Military
Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Day
Pleasure
Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Crime
Sensibility
Unhappiness