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Certain trifling flaws sit as disgracefully on a character of elegance as a ragged button on a court dress.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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Johann Kaspar Lavater
Age: 59 †
Born: 1741
Born: November 15
Died: 1801
Died: January 2
Criminologist
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City of Zurich
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When you doubt between words, use the plainest, the commonest, the most idiomatic. Eschew fine words as you would rouge love simple ones as you would the native roses on your cheek.
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Be neither too early in the fashion, nor too long out of it nor at any time in the extremes of it.
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Who despises all that is despicable is made to be impressed with all that is grand.
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He who, silent, loves to be with us - he who loves us in our silence - has touched one of the keys that ravish hearts.
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The generous person is always just, and the just who is always generous may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven.
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If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.
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Who trades in contradictions will not be contradicted.
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