"Si jeunesse savait, si vieillesse pouvait."
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Henri Estienne, Les PrΓ©mices, Epigramme CXCI; Marc Antoine Legrande, La Famille Extravagante, Divertissement (translation by Mme. RissolΓ©); both reported in Thomas Benfield Harbottle and Philip Hugh Dalbiac, Dictionary of Quotations (French and Italian) (1904), p. 208.
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Henri Estienne
Henri Estienne (1528 β 1598), also known as "Henricus Stephanus", was a 16th-century Parisian printer and classical scholar. He was the eldest son of the great Robert Estienne (1503β59). Some sources say Estienne was born in 1531.
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