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Jean de La Bruyere (1645 – 1696)


French essayist and moralist.
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Jean de La Bruyere
A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune, and favor cannot satisfy him.
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Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.
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It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well, nor the judgment to hold their tongues.




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Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both its readers and the writer himself.
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