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To be an agreeable guest one need only enjoy oneself.

Joseph Joubert

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
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Before you use a fancy word, make room for it.
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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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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. [Fr., Celui qui a de l'imagination sans erudition a des ailes, et n'a pas de pieds.]
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Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas. As soon as the idea has come to its last degree of perfection, the word blossoms.
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There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work.
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