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Marcel Proust Quotes: When you work to please others you can't succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone's interest.
         

When you work to please others you can't succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone's interest.


Marcel Proust
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