If you want something done right, do it yourself.

On n'est jamais si bien servi que par soi-même.

Charles-Guillaume Etienne

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Self-reliance Perfectionism

Speaker

Palaprat

Author

Charles-Guillaume Etienne

Source

Bruis et Palaprat

Medium

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Language

French

Time

1807 1800s 19th century

Occupation

Playwright Writer

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France Europe

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Citation

Étienne, Charles-Guillaume. Bruïs et Palaprat. 1807, Théâtre-Français, Paris, France, sc. 3.

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FIRST LAW: In every animal... A more frequent and continuous use of any organ gradually strengthens, develops and enlarges that organ... While the permanent disuse of any organ imperceptibly weakens and deteriorates it, and progressively diminishes its functional capacity, until it finally disappears.
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Source
Philosophie Zoologique
Language
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Time
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Original Citation

Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste. Philosophie zoologique [Zoological Philosophy]. Paris: Musee d'Histoire Naturelle, 1809, pt. 1, ch. 7.

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Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste. Zoological Philosophy, translated by Hugh Samuel Roger Elliott. Cambridge University Press, 2011, pt. 1, ch. 7.

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The lyricism of marginality may find inspiration in the image of the "outlaw," the great social nomad, who prowls on the confines of a docile, frightened order.

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Source
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Time
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