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• The greatest part of mankind employ their first years to make their last miserable.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Years, Lasts, Firsts

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Jean de La Bruyère, 1895.

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• If you suppress the exorbitant love of pleasure and money, idle curiosity, iniquitous pursuits and wanton mirth, what a stillness would there be in the greatest cities.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Cities, Curiosity, Mirth

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• A coquette is one that is never to be persuaded out of the passion she has to please, nor out of a good opinion of her own beauty: time and years she regards as things that only wrinkle and decay other women, forgetting that age is written in the face, and that the same dress which became her when she was young now only makes her look older.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Passion, Wrinkles, Years

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• A coxcomb is the blockhead's man of merit.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Merit, Blockheads

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• All the world says of a coxcomb that he is a coxcomb; but no one dares to say so to his face, and he dies without knowing it.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Knowing, World, Faces

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• The nearer we approach great men, the clearer we see that they are men.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Dignity, Great Men

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• Dissimulation, even the most innocent in its nature, is ever productive of embarrassment; whether the design is evil or not artifice is always dangerous and almost inevitably disgraceful.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Evil, Design, Innocent

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• Extremes are vicious, and proceed from men; compensation is just, and proceeds from God.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Vicious, Compensation

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• It seems to me that the spirit of politeness is a certain attention in causing that, by our words and by our manners, others may be content with us and with themselves.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Our Words, Attention, May

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• Languages are the keys of science.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Keys, Language

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• We rarely repent of speaking little, but often of speaking too much.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Speech, Littles, Too Much

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• Eminent station makes great men more great, and little ones less.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Littles, Great Men

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• The best thing next to wit is a consciousness that it is not in us; without wit, a man might then know how to behave himself, so as not to appear to be a fool or a coxcomb.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Might, Next

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• A good author, and one who writes carefully, often discovers that the expression of which he has been in search without being able to discover it, and which he has at last found, is that which was the most simple, the most natural, and which seems as if it ought to have presented itself at once, without effort, to the mind.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Writing, Simple, Expression

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• To forget someone means to think of him.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Mean, Thinking, Forget

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• Genius and great abilities are often wanting; sometimes, only opportunities. Some deserve praise for what they have done; others for what they would have done.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Opportunity, Genius, Done

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• There are three great events in our lives: birth, life and death. Of birth we have no conscience; with death, we suffer; and, concerning life, we forget to live it.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Birth Life And Death, Suffering, Events

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