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The highest reach of a news-writer is an empty Reasoning on Policy, and vain Conjectures on the public Management.

The highest reach of a news-writer is an empty Reasoning on Policy, and vain Conjectures on the public Management.

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News, Management, Journalism
"The Characters or Manners of the Present Age". Book by Jean de La Bruyère, Chapter I, 1688.

We wish to constitute all the happiness, or, if that cannot be, the misery of the one we love.

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Self Love, Wish, Selfishness

To give awkwardly is churlishness. The most difficult part is to give, then why not add a smile?

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Generosity, Giving, Add

We are more sociable, and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect.

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Heart, People, Intellect

Love begins with love ; and the warmest friendship cannot change even to the coldest love.

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Love Is

Friendship * * * is a long time in forming, it is of slow growth, through many trials and months of familiarity.

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Friendship, Long, Growth

How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude!

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Sweet, Solitude, Passing

He who can wait for what he desires takes the course not to be exceedingly grieved if he fails of it; he, on the contrary, who labors after a thing too impatiently thinks the success when it comes is not a recompense equal to all the pains he has been at about it.

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Pain, Failure, Thinking

It is motive alone that gives real value to the actions of men, and disinterestedness puts the cap to it.

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Real, Men, Giving

Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an adornment to those who have filled their lives with great deeds: they might be compared to some beauty carelessly dressed and thereby all the more attractive.

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Beauty, Men, Simplicity
"Of Personal Merit", Aphorism 17, 1688.

Both as to high and low indifferently, men are prepossessed, charmed, fascinated by success; successful crimes are praised very much like virtue itself, and good fortune is not far from occupying the place of the whole cycle of virtues. It must be an atrocious act, a base and hateful deed, which success would not be able to justify.

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Success, Men, Deeds

Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other.

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Keys, Language, Despise
"The Characters or Manners of the Present Age". Book by Jean de La Bruyère, Chapter XII, 1688.

The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.

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Funny, Humorous, Ideas
"Of Books". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

Caprice in women often infringes upon the rules of decency.

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Caprice, Decency

There are but two ways of rising in the world: either by one's own industry or profiting by the foolishness of others. [Fr., Il n'y a au monde que deux manieres de s'elever, ou par sa propre industrie, ou par l'imbecilite des autres.]

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

When we have run through all forms of government, without partiality to that we were born under, we are at a loss with which to side; they are all a compound of good and evil. It is therefore most reasonable and safe to value that of our own country above all others, and to submit to it.

Jean de la Bruyere
Running, Country, Loss

A man only goes and confesses his faults to the world when his self will not acknowledge or listen to them. WYNDHAM LEWIS, Tarr Two persons will not be friends long if they are not inclined to pardon each other's little failings.

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Men, Self, Two

Praise, of all things, is the most powerful excitement to commendable actions, and animates us in our enterprises.

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Powerful, Action, Excitement

Profane eloquence is transfered from the bar, where Le Maitre, Pucelle, and Fourcroy formerly practised it, and where it has become obsolete, to the Pulpit, where it is out of place.

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Bars, Obsolete, Pulpit
"The Characters", Chapter XVI. 2., 1688.

We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood.

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Knavery, Deceit, Add
"Characters", XI, 1688.

He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant.

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Writing, Advice, Pedants

The State not seldom tolerates a comparatively great evil to keep out millions of lesser ills and inconveniences which otherwise would be inevitable and without remedy.

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Evil, Would Be, States

All confidence placed in another is dangerous if it is not perfect, for on almost all occasions we ought to tell everything or to conceal everything. We have already told too much of our secret, if one single circumstance is to be kept back.

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Perfect, Secret, Too Much

A man must be completely wanting in intelligence if he does not show it when actuated by love, malice, or necessity.

Jean de la Bruyere
Men, Intelligence, Doe

To endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else.

Jean de la Bruyere
Thinking, Way, Forget

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