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Courtly manners are contagious they are caught at Versailles.
Jean de la Bruyere
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Jean de la Bruyere
Age: 50 †
Born: 1645
Born: August 16
Died: 1696
Died: May 10
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French Moralist
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Jean de La Bruyere
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The fool only is troublesome. A plan of sense perceives when he is agreeable or tiresome he disappears the very minute before he would have been thought to have stayed too long.
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The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
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We should only endeavour to think and speak correctly ourselves, without wishing to bring others over to our taste and opinions.
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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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A party spirit betrays the greatest men to act as meanly as the vulgar herd.
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Man makes up his mind he will preach, and he preaches.
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