Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
JOSEPH JOUBERTInnocence is always unsuspicious.
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The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.
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It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
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Space is to place as eternity is to time.
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Children need models rather than critics.
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Politeness is the flower of humanity.
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.
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Imagination is the eye of the soul.
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Justice is the truth in action.
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Innocence is always unsuspicious.
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The passions of the young are vices in the old.
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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
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Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.
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He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
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