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Re: Can You Identify This Quote?
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La Rochefoucauld, François duc de, 1613-1680

"One of the tragedies of life is the murder of a beautiful theory by a
brutal gang of facts."

--OR--

"There is nothing more horrible than the murder of a beautiful theory by a
brutal gang of facts."

Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims (1678)

Tom
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Subject: Can You Identify This Quote?

Hoping someone can tell me who wrote this terrific quote.  Came to me from
another researcher who can't remember where she saw it.
 --Tom

  "There is nothing more tragic than the murder of a beautiful theory by a
brutal gang of facts."

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