Most men make use of the first part of their life to render the last part miserable.
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When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman.Jean de la Bruyere
Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
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Out of difficulties grow miracles.
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If some men died and others did not, death would indeed be a most mortifying evil.
Jean de la Bruyere
One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.
Jean de la Bruyere
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.
Jean de la Bruyere
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