A Quote by Marcel Proust

People who laugh so heartily at what they themselves have said, when it is not funny, dispense us accordingly, by taking upon themselves the responsibility for the mirth, from joining in it.

Marcel Proust

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Marcel Proust
French - Novelist
July 10, 1871 - November 18, 1922

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