"To select well among old things is almost equal to inventing new ones."
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Reported in J. de Finod (ed.) A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness (New York: D. Appleton and Co, 1902) p. 7
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Nicolas-Charles-Joseph Trublet
Nicolas Charles Joseph Trublet (4 December 1697 – 14 March 1770) was a French churchman (canon of Saint-Malo) and moralist, best known for his clash with Voltaire, whose La Henriade he critiqued.
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