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Genuine bon mots surprise those from whose lips they fall, no less than they do those who listen to them.

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Joseph Joubert
Age: 69 †
Born: 1754
Born: May 7
Died: 1824
Died: May 4
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Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.
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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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A false mind is false in everything, just as a cross eye always looks askant. But one may err once, nay, a hundred times, without being double-minded. There can never be mental duplicity where there is sincerity.
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I love prudence very little, if it is not moral.
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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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Luckily, I never feel at one time more than half my pains.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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