L'utilité publique se fait sou vent du dommage des particuliers. - Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac

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Il n'y a point d'enfants que nous aimions davantage que ceux qui naissent de notre esprit, et desquels nous sommes père et mère tout ensemble.

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Translation: There are no children of whom we are fonder than those that are born of our brains, to whom we are father and mother in one.

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Translation: No one is bound to be clever, but every one is under an obligation to be good.

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