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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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Let us respect gray Lairs, but, above all, our own.
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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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We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.
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The less power a man has, the more he likes to use it.
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Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud.
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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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The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant.
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No woman dares express all she thinks.
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Public opinion is a courtesan, whom we seek to please without respecting.
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Do not crowd the understanding it can comprehend so much and no more. A pint pot will not contain the measure of a quart.
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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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