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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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There is graciousness and a kind of urbanity in beginning with men by esteem and confidence. It proves, at least, that we have long lived in good company with others and with our selves.
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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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Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy.
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God is the place where I do not remember the rest.
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In the commerce of language use only coin of gold and silver.
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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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When you give, give with joy and smiling.
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The evening of a well spent youth brings it's lamps with it.
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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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Luckily, I never feel at one time more than half my pains.
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There are some heads which have no windows, and the day can never strike from above nothing enters from heavenard.
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Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre.
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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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Happy is the man who can do only one thing in doing it, he fulfills his destiny.
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There is in the soul a taste for the good, just as there is in the body an appetite for enjoyment.
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Taste has never been corrupted by simplicity.
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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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Grief - Happiness is to feel that one's soul is good there is no other, in truth, and this kind of happiness may exist even in sorrow, so that there are griefs perfable to every joy, and such as would be preferred by all those who have felt them.
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