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Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux (October 29, 1882 - January 31, 1944) was a French dramatist who wrote internationally acclaimed plays..

"Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom."

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"The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is the example of the eternal seductiveness of life."

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"There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people..."

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"I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management."

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"Only the mediocre are always at their best."

Giraudoux, Jean on mediocrity    Share

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"I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life."

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