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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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When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come.
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Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive but the latter is active and creative. Children, the weak minded, and the timid are full of fancy. Men and women of intellect, of great intellect, are alone possessed of great imagination.
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Politeness smooths wrinkles.
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When you give, give with joy and smiling.
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Abuse of words is the foundation of ideology.
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Strength is natural, but grace is the growth of habit. This charming quality requires practice if it is to become lasting.
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Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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The mind is the atmosphere of the soul.
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Religion must be loved as a kind of country and nursing-mother. It was religion that nourished our virtues, that showed us heaven, that taught us to walk in the path of duty.
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The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry
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