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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
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I resemble the poplar,--that tree which, even when old, still looks young.
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Happy is the man who can do only one thing in doing it, he fulfills his destiny.
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Abuse of words is the foundation of ideology.
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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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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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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.
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Avoid singularity. There may often be less vanity in following the new modes than in adhering to the old ones. It is true that the foolish invent them, but the wise may conform to, instead of contradicting, them.
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Some superior minds are unrecognized because there is no standard by which to weigh them.
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Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
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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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Justice is the truth in action.
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Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax.
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You want to talk to someone first open your ears.
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There are some heads which have no windows, and the day can never strike from above nothing enters from heavenard.
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