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“To how many girls has a great beauty been of no other use but to make them expect a large fortune!”

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Jean de la Bruyere was a French philosopher and moralist, born on August 16, 1645, and died on May 10, 1696. His works have had a profound impact on posterity. more

“Children are overbearing, supercilious, passionate, envious, inquisitive, egotistical, idle, fickle, timid, intemperate, liars, and dissemblers; they laugh and weep easily, are excessive in their joys and sorrows, and that about the most trifling objects; they bear no pain, but like to inflict it on others; already they are men.”

Men Children Pain Joy Laughing Objects Bears Sorrow Passionate Liars Idle Envious Egotistical Fickle Trifling No Pain Inquisitive Joys And Sorrows Overbearing Supercilious

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“The most accomplished literary work would be reduced to nothing by carping criticism, if the author would listen to all critics and allow every one to erase the passage which pleases him the least.”

Ifs Would Be Please Criticism Critics Accomplished Passages Erase Literary Works

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“Death happens but once, yet we feel it every moment of our lives; it is worse to dread it than to suffer it.”

Feels Moments Happens Death Suffering Our Lives Dread

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“We never deceive people to benefit them, for knavery is a compound of wickedness and falsehood.”

People Benefits Deception Falsehood Deceiving Wickedness Compounds Knavery

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“It is weakness which makes us hate an enemy and seek revenge, and it is idleness that pacifies us and causes us to neglect it.”

Hate Causes Enemy Weakness Revenge Neglect Idleness

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“A man only goes and confesses his faults to the world when his self will not acknowledge or listen to them. WYNDHAM LEWIS, Tarr Two persons will not be friends long if they are not inclined to pardon each other's little failings.”

Ifs Men World Littles Persons Long Two Self Failing Faults Acknowledge Pardon Self Will

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“It is a fool's privilege to laugh at an intelligent man.”

Men Laughing Fool Intelligent Privilege Intelligent Man

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“I am not surprised that there are gambling houses, like so many snares laid for human avarice; like abysses where many a man's money is engulfed and swallowed up without any hope of return; like frightful rocks against which the gamblers are thrown and perish.”

Men Humans House Rocks Return Thrown Gambling Abyss Avarice Snares

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“There is no excess in the world so commendable as excessive gratitude.”

World Gratitude Excess Commendable

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“The lives of heroes have enriched history, and history has adorned the actions of heroes ; and thus I cannot say whether the historians are more indebted to those who provided them with such noble materials, or those great men to their historians.”

Men Action Materials Hero Noble Great Men Historian Indebted

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