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Without big words, how could many people say small things?

Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

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Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Born: 1792
Born: April 6
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Small
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The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant.
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True courage is like a kite a contrary wind raises it higher.
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The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own.
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We forget the origin of a parvenu if he remembers it we remember it if he forgets it.
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The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people.
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There is a proverb in the South that a woman laughs when she can, and weeps when she pleases.
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A pedant holds more to instruct us with what he knows, than of what we are ignorant.
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Pleasure limps for him. who enjoys it alone.
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Our interests are grains of opium to our consciences, but they only put it to sleep for a terrible awakening.
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Experience unveils too late the snares laid for youth it is the white frost which discovers the spider's web when the flies are no longer there to be caught.
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Nothing for preserving the body like having no heart.
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Do you know a young and beautiful woman who is not ready to flirt-just a little?
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How many wells of science there are in whose depths there is nothing but clear water!
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No woman dares express all she thinks.
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Perfect servants would be the worst of all for certain masters, whose happiness consists in finding fault with them.
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Some delicate matters must be treated like pins, because if they are not seized by the right end, we get pricked.
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Our virtues live upon our incomes our vices consume our capital.
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We find ourselves less witty in remembering what we have said than in dreaming of what we would have said.
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It is only before those who are glad to hear it, and anxious to spread it, that we find it easy to speak ill of others.
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