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Quotation by Charles Louis de Secondat Montesquieu
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There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.
Charles Louis de Secondat Montesquieu (1689–1755), French philosopher, lawyer. Persian Letters, no. 40 (1721), trans. by C.J. Betts (1973).
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