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• We must strive to make ourselves really worthy of some employment. We need pay no attention to anything else; the rest is the business of others.

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  Needs, Attention, Employment

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• Intelligence is to genius as the whole is in proportion to its part.
  [Fr., Entre esprit et talent il y a la proportion du tout a sa partie.]

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  Genius, Talent, Proportion

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• Wit is the god of moments, but Genius is the god of ages.

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  Age, Genius, Moments

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• The generality of men expend the early part of their lives in contributing to render the latter part miserable.

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  Men, Miserable, Latter

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• We meet With few utterly dull and stupid souls: the sublime and transcendent are still fewer; the generality of mankind stand between these two extremes: the interval is filled with multitudes of ordinary geniuses, but all very useful, and the ornaments and supports of the commonwealth.

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  Stupid, Two, Support

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• Rarely do they appear great before their valets.
  [Fr., Rarement ils sont grands vis-a-vis de leur valets-de-chambre.]

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  Hero, Valet

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• Some young people do not sufficiently understand the advantages of natural charms, and how much they would gain by trusting to them entirely. They weaken these gifts of heaven, so rare and fragile, by affected manners and an awkward imitation. Their tones and their gait are borrowed; they study their attitudes before the glass until they have lost all trace of natural manner, and, with all their pains, they please but little.

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  Pain, Attitude, Glasses

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• Jesting, often, only proves a want of intellect.
  [Fr., La moquerie est souvent une indigence d'esprit.]

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  Want, Intellect, Prove

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• I am told so many ill things of a man, and I see so few in him, that I begin to suspect he has a real but troublesome merit, as being likely to eclipse that of others.

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  Real, Men, Merit

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• It is a proof of boorishness to confer a favor with a bad grace; it is the act of giving that is hard and painful. How little does a smile cost?

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  Giving, Grace, Doe

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• Logic is the art of convincing us some truth.

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  Art, Logic, Convincing

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• A man often runs the risk of throwing away a witticism if he admits that it is his own.

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  Running, Men, Risk

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• We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

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  Love, Life, Aggravation

  "Of The Heart". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• Nothing more clearly shows how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other worldly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them.

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  Funny, Money, Men

  "Of Worldly Goods", Aphorism 24,

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• Courtly manners are contagious; they are caught at Versailles.

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  Versailles, Manners, Caught

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• In Friendship we only see those faults which may be prejudicial to our friends. In love we see no faults but those by which we suffer ourselves.

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  Friendship, Suffering, May

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• Men make the best friends.

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  Friends, Men

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• A man may have intelligence enough to excel in a particular thing and lecture on it, and yet not have sense enough to know he ought to be silent on some other subject of which he has but a slight knowledge; if such an illustrious man ventures beyond the bounds of his capacity, he loses his way and talks like a fool.

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  Men, May, Venture

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• There is nothing which continues longer than a moderate fortune; nothing of which one sees sooner the end than a large fortune.

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  Ends, Fortune, Moderates

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• There is no employment in the world so laborious as that of making to one's self a great name; life ends before one has scarcely made the first rough draught of his work.

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  Self, Names, Employment

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• I never have wit until I am below stairs.
  [Fr., Je n'ai jamais d'esprit qu'au bas de l'escalier.]

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  Stairs, Wit

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• Foolish jokers are thick on the ground, and it rains insects of that sort everywhere. A good joker is a rarity; even a man who is such by nature finds it hard to sustain the part for long; it seldom happens that the man who makes us laugh wins our esteem.

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  Country, Way, Kind

  "Of Society And Conversation". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• Eloquence may be found in conversations and in all kinds of writings; it is rarely found when looked for, and sometimes discovered where it is least expected.

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  Writing, May, Kind

  "The Characters", Chapter I' 55, 1688.

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• Physiognomy is not a guide that has been given us by which to judge of the character of men: it may only serve us for conjecture.
  [Fr., La physionomie n'est pas une regle qui nous soit donnee pour juger des hommes; elle nous peut servir de conjecture.]

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  Character, Men, Judging

  "Les Caractères", XII, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 97-106,

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• Too great carelessness, equally with excess in dress, multiplies the wrinkles of old age, and makes its decay still more conspicuous.

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  Wrinkles, Age, Dresses

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