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To make a book is as much a trade as to make a clock something more than intelligence is required to become an author.
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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Paris
France
Jean de La Bruyere
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A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.
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A man starts upon a sudden, takes Pen, Ink, and Paper, and without ever having had a thought of it before, resolves within himself he will write a Book he has no Talent at Writing, but he wants fifty Guineas.
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The punishment of a criminal is an example to the rabble but every decent man is concerned if an innocent person is condemned.
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Foolish jokers are thick on the ground, and it rains insects of that sort everywhere. A good joker is a rarity even a man who is such by nature finds it hard to sustain the part for long it seldom happens that the man who makes us laugh wins our esteem.
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Profound ignorance makes a man dogmatic. The man who knows nothing thinks he is teaching others what he has just learned himself the man who knows a great deal can't imagine that what he is saying is not common knowledge, and speaks more indifferently.
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We ought not to make those people our enemies who might have become our friends, if we had only known them better.
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A great mind is above insults, injustice, grief, and raillery, and would be invulnerable were it not open to compassion.
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For some people, speaking and giving offence are one and the same thing. They are spiteful and bitter their style is infused with gall and wormwood mockery, abuse and insults flow from their lips like spittle.
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Laziness begat wearisomeness, and this put men in quest of diversions, play and company, on which however it is a constant attendant he who works hard, has enough to do with himself otherwise.
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The most exquisite pleasure is giving pleasure to others.
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We must strive to make ourselves really worthy of some employment. We need pay no attention to anything else the rest is the business of others.
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