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The beautiful invariably possesses a visible and a hidden beauty; and it is certain that no style is so beautiful as that which presents to the attentive reader a half-hidden meaning.

The beautiful invariably possesses a visible and a hidden beauty; and it is certain that no style is so beautiful as that which presents to the attentive reader a half-hidden meaning.

Joseph Joubert
Beautiful, Style, Half
Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

The true character of epistolary style is playfulness and urbanity.

Joseph Joubert
Character, Style, Letters
Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.134

A temperate style is alone classical.

Joseph Joubert
Style
Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus.

Joseph Joubert
Plato, Swans, Style
Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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