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Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.[La satire ment sur les gens de lettres pendant leur vie, et l’éloge ment après leur mort.]

Source:Letter to Bordes (January 10, 1769)
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  • Name: Voltaire
  • Profession: Writer, Philosopher
  • Born: November 21, 1694 - May 30, 1778
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