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The true character of epistolary style is playfulness and urbanity.

Joseph Joubert

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
Essayist
Philosopher
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Letters
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True
Character
Urbanity
Playfulness

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Science confounds everything it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.
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Children need models rather than critics.
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Religion must be loved as a kind of country and nursing-mother. It was religion that nourished our virtues, that showed us heaven, that taught us to walk in the path of duty.
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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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A temperate style is alone classical.
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The paper is patient, but the reader is not.
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