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«Hatred is so lasting and stubborn, that reconciliation on a sickbed certainly forebodes death»
Author: Jean de la Bruyere
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Hate
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forebodes, foreboding, reconciliation, sickbed, stubborn
«Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father»
«The pleasure of criticizing robs us of the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things»
Author: Jean de la Bruyere
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Criticism
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criticizing, fine, moved, robs, The Pleasure
«All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.»
«When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and courageous feelings, seek for no other rule to judge the event by; it is good and made by a good workman»
Author: Jean de la Bruyere
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Books,
Feelings
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courageous, inspires, raises, rule book, workman
«From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and whose outstanding qualities shed a stupendous light. Like those extraordinary stars of whose origins we are ignorant, and of whose fate, once they have vanished, we know even less, such men have neither forebears nor descendants: they are the whole of their race.»
Author: Jean de la Bruyere
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consummate, consummated, consummating, dazzle, dazzled, dazzles, dazzling, descendant, descendants, from time to time, origins, outstanding, shed, shed light on, stupendous, The Descendants, vanished
«False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and reveals itself only enough to create an illusion and not be recognized as the meanness that it really is. True greatness is free, kind, familiar and popular; it lets itself be touched and handled, it loses nothing by being seen at close quarters; the better one knows it, the more one admires it.»
Author: Jean de la Bruyere
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admires, avert, averted, averting, averts, false face, frailties, frailty, handled, hides, meanness, quarters, recognized, remote, touched, unsociable
«We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.»
Author: Jean de la Bruyere
| About:
Power
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cowardly, flatteries, flattery, ill, implied, implies, implying
«Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth»
«Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.»
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