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In the commerce of language use only coin of gold and silver.

Joseph Joubert

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
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Every modulated sound is not a song, and every voice that executes a beautiful air does not sing. Singing should enchant. But to produce this effect there must be a quality of soul and voice which is by no means common even with great singers.
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We should make ourselves loved, for men are only just towards those whom they love.
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How many weak shoulders have craved heavy burdens!
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In clothes clean and fresh there is a kind of youth with which age should surround itself.
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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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Beautiful works do not intoxicate, but they enchant.
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Sexes. One has the look of a wound, the other of something skinned.
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Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre.
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Slander is the solace of malignity.
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In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.
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There are those to whom one must advise madness.
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The true character of epistolary style is playfulness and urbanity.
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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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A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
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Education should be gentle and stern, not cold and lax.
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Genuinely good remarks surprise their author as well as his audience.
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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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The soul paints itself in our machines.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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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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