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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
Politeness
Wrinkles
Smooth
Smooths

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The paper is patient, but the reader is not.
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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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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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I would fain coin wisdom,—mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. Would that I could denounce and banish from the language of men—as base money—the words by which they cheat and are cheated!
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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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Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn from them.
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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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Heaven is for those who think of it.
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Think of the ills from which you are exempt.
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The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.
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To be an agreeable guest one need only enjoy oneself.
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