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Politeness smooths wrinkles.

Joseph Joubert

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
Essayist
Philosopher
Writer
Wrinkles
Smooth
Smooths
Politeness

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Avoid singularity. There may often be less vanity in following the new modes than in adhering to the old ones. It is true that the foolish invent them, but the wise may conform to, instead of contradicting, them.
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Abuse of words is the foundation of ideology.
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Fate and necessity are unconquerable.
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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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There is always some frivolity in excellent minds they have wings to rise, but also stray.
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Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy.
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Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book in conversation a little excess is allowable.
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Before you use a fancy word, make room for it.
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Sexes. One has the look of a wound, the other of something skinned.
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Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.
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Lenity is a part of justice but she must not speak too loud for fear of waking justice.
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Heaven is for those who think of it.
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The paper is patient, but the reader is not.
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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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What can you possibly add to a mind that's full, especially one that's full of itself.
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Work like you don't need the money.
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The ways suited to confidence are familiar to me, but not those that are suited to familiarity.
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There are people who are virtuous only in a piece-meal way virtue is a fabric from which they never make themselves a whole garment.
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Genius begins beautiful works, but only labor finishes them.
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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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