Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring fr…

Marcel Proust
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect. ✨ Marcel Proust (2016). In Search of Lost Time: Or “Á la Recherche du temps perdu”, p.549, Jester House Publishing
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