- Benjamin Constant
(10/23/1767 – 12/08/1830)
French writer
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"Art for art's sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own."
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"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination."
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"It was remarked to me by the late Mr. Charles Roupell, that to play billiards well was a sign of an ill-spent youth."
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"Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard there is nothing you can do about it."
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"Life is what happens when you are making other
plans."
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"I have so much fun on stage that I should have to pay to get in."
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| "After 'Dr. Strangelove,' the roles, the dressing rooms, and the checks all started gettin' bigger." |  |
| "And this you can see is the bolt. The purpose of this Is to open the breech, as you see. We can slide it Rapidly backwards and forwards: we call this Easing the spring. And rapidly backwards and forwards The early bees are assaulting and fumbling the flowers: They call it easing the Spring."
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"Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one."
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| Born 12/07 | Born 12/08 | Born 12/09 | Birth Dates | |
| Died 12/07 | Died 12/08 | Died 12/09 | Death Dates |