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Before you use a fancy word, make room for it.

Joseph Joubert

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
Essayist
Philosopher
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Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man.
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Think that day lost whose descending sun, views from thy hand no noble action done.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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If authorities were well organized, there would not be an Unknown Warrior.
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When the painter wishes to represent an event, he cannot place before us too great a number of personages but he cannot employ too few when he wishes to portray an emotion.
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Space is the stature of God.
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Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.
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Maxims are to the intellect what laws are to actions they do not enlighten, but they guide and direct, and, although themselves blind, are protective.
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Liquid, flowing words are the choicest and the best, if language is regarded as music. But when it is considered as a picture, then there are rough words which are very telling, they make their mark.
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Slander is the solace of malignity.
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Living requires but little life doing requires much.
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In the commerce of language use only coin of gold and silver.
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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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Words become luminous when the poet's finger has passed over them its phosphorescence.
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There is graciousness and a kind of urbanity in beginning with men by esteem and confidence. It proves, at least, that we have long lived in good company with others and with our selves.
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What can you possibly add to a mind that's full, especially one that's full of itself.
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No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments.
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How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.
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Our worries always come from our weaknesses.
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