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A good upbringing consists in hiding how much you think of yourself, and how little you think of others.


Jean Cocteau

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JEAN ROSTAND One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.
JEAN ROSTAND Small crimes always precedes great ones.
JEAN RACINE Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. ...
JEAN GENET