Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.

Quote by Jean De La Bruyere

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No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no...

No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no...

A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there...

A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there...

Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought...

Everything has been said, and we are more than seven thousand years of human thought...

Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.

Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.

The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are...

The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as there are...

There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is...

There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is...

I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just...

I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just...

Hatred is so lasting and stubborn, that reconciliation on a sickbed certainly forebodes death

Hatred is so lasting and stubborn, that reconciliation on a sickbed certainly forebodes death

Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us...

Children have neither past nor future; they enjoy the present, which very few of us...

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank.

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

There are only two ways of getting on in the world either by one's own...

There are only two ways of getting on in the world either by one's own...

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

It's motive alone that gives character to the actions of men

It's motive alone that gives character to the actions of men

When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do...

When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do...

A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better...

A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better...

Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father

Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father

Modesty is to merit, as shades to figures in a picture, giving it strength and...

Modesty is to merit, as shades to figures in a picture, giving it strength and...

At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of...

At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of...

Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it...

Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it...