You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
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Taste is the literary conscience of the soul.Joseph Joubert
A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Sound maxims are the germs of good strongly imprinted on the memory they fortify and strengthen the will.
Joseph Joubert
It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
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Politeness is the flower of humanity.
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Virtue by calculation is the virtue of vice.
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Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.
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