Pierre Beaumarchais (Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, 24 January 1732 – 18 May 1799); French playwright, diplomat, satirist, and revolutionary.
Drinking when We are not thirsty and making love all year round, madam; that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals.
— Le Mariage de Figaro, act 2, sc. 21 (I785).
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