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Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
Essayist
Philosopher
Writer
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Eyeglasses
Blur
Vision
Clear
Words
Everything
Make

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Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it... GET RICH QUICK! Count your blessings... Stop telling GOD how big your storm is. Instead, tell the storm how big your GOD is!!!!!! Contentment begins where comparison ends. The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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The lively phraseology of Montesquieu was the result of long meditation. His words, as light as wings, bear on them grave reflections.
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You want to talk to someone first open your ears.
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Taste is the literary conscience of the soul.
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It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas.
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One man finds in religion his literature and his science, another finds in it his joy and his duty.
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To see the world is to judge the judges.
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Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it makes his usefulness takes the place of beauty.
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Abuse of words is the foundation of ideology.
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