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I am quite prepared to say of metaphysicians what Scaliger used to say of the Basques: “People declare that they understand one another, but I don’t believe a word of it.”

— Nicolas Chamfort

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Reported in: Classical and Foreign Quotations, 3rd ed. (1904), no. 1175

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