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Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.
Jean de la Bruyere
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Jean de la Bruyere
Age: 50 †
Born: 1645
Born: August 16
Died: 1696
Died: May 10
Aphorist
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French Moralist
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Jean de La Bruyere
Diamond
Judgment
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Next
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World
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Diamonds
Pearls
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Party loyalty lowers the greatest men to the petty level of the masses.
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One faithful Friend is enough for a man's self, 'tis much to meet with such an one, yet we can't have too many for the sake of others.
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It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part what does it cost to add a smile?
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Children are overbearing, supercilious, passionate, envious, inquisitive, egotistical, idle, fickle, timid, intemperate, liars, and dissemblers they laugh and weep easily, are excessive in their joys and sorrows, and that about the most trifling objects they bear no pain, but like to inflict it on others already they are men.
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