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You want to talk to someone first open your ears.

Joseph Joubert

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
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The breath of the mind is attention.
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In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.
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In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition.
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We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.
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Genuine bon mots surprise those from whose lips they fall, no less than they do those who listen to them.
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I quit Paris unwillingly, because I must part from my friends and I quit the country unwillingly, because I must part from myself.
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Taste is the literary conscience of the soul.
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The paper is patient, but the reader is not.
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One can with dignity be wife and widow but once.
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It would be next to impossible to discover a handsome woman who was not also a vain woman.
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Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.
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Thoughts there are, that need no embodying, no form, no expression. It is enough to hint at them vaguely a word, and they are heard and seen.
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A false mind is false in everything, just as a cross eye always looks askant. But one may err once, nay, a hundred times, without being double-minded. There can never be mental duplicity where there is sincerity.
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Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom.
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We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.
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Tenderness is the rest of passion.
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Men have torn up the roads which led to Heaven, and which all the world followed now we have to make our own ladders.
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In the commerce of language use only coin of gold and silver.
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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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To teach is to learn twice. About all some parents accomplish in life is to send a child to Harvard. The purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place to spend one's leisure.
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