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June 27, 2018

The idea that suffering teaches kindness is not always true. Unhappiness can engender hardness as well as tenderness.

—François-René de Chateaubriand
   French writer, politician, and diplomat (1768-1848)


Source: Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb, transl. by Robert Baldick (buy from Amazon)




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