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Drawing is speaking to the eye talking is painting to the ear.
Joseph Joubert
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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
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Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone.
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Of what delights are we deprived by our excesses!
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Abuse of words is the foundation of ideology.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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I do not call reason that brutal reason which crushes with its weight what is holy and sacred, that malignant reason which delights in the errors it succeeds in discovering, that unfeeling and scornful reason which insults credulity.
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Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax.
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In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.
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