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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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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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Grace imitates modesty, as politeness imitates kindness.
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Heaven is for those who think of it.
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History needs distance, perspective. Facts and events which are too well attested cease, in some sort, to be malleable.
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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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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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Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.
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Luckily, I never feel at one time more than half my pains.
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We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.
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Let your cry be for free souls rather than for freedom. Moral liberty is the only important liberty.
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Let us be men with men, and always children before God for in His eyes we are but children. Old age itself, in presence of eternity, is but the first moment of a morning.
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Nothing which does not transport is poetry. The lyre is a winged instrument.
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Sexes. One has the look of a wound, the other of something skinned.
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Haughty people seem to me to have, like the dwarfs, the stature of a child and the face of a man.
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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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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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When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come.
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Virtue is the health of the soul.
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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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The idea of the nest in the bird's mind, where does it come from?
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