What is the original French?... for "Men of parts seldom think of questioning anything else but what other people hold beyond question." -Vauvenargues

From: thezak <don.saklad@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 06:20:40 -0700 (PDT)

What is the original French?... for
"Men of parts seldom think of questioning anything else but what other
people hold beyond question."
-Vauvenargues

reference
page 91, The World in a Phrase a brief history of the aphorism
by James Geary
Bloomsbury Publishing 2005

James Geary didn't know the original.
.

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