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The everyday cares and duties, which men call drudgery, are the weights and counterpoises of the clock of time, giving its pendulum a true vibration and its hands a regular motion; and when they cease to hang upon its wheels, the pendulum no longer swings, the hands no longer move the clock stands still.

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Marquise Magdeleine de Sablé

Marquise Magdeleine de Sablé

(c. 1599-1678) The Marquise Sablé’s work is in Maxims and Various Thoughts (Maximes et pensées diverses) 1678 - French patroness of letters, her literary salon influenced La Rochefoucald.

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