“If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.”

Jean De La Bruyere
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Death
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“The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.”

Jean De La Bruyere
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Criticism
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“If poverty is the mother of crime, lack of good sense is the father.”

Jean De La Bruyere
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Crime
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“Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.”

Jean De La Bruyere
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Children
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“No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less.”

Jean De La Bruyere
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Absence
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“It requires more than mere genius to be an author.”

Jean De La Bruyere
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Writing
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“Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.”

Jean De La Bruyere
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Writing
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“A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.”

Jean De La Bruyere
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Wish
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“The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.”

Jean De La Bruyere
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.”

Jean De La Bruyere
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Happiness
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“Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker”

Jean De La Bruyere
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Time
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“Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.”

Jean De La Bruyere
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“The giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?”

Jean De La Bruyere
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Charity
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“The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.”

Jean De La Bruyere
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Boredom
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“It’s motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.”

Jean De La Bruyere
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Action
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“One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.”

Jean De La Bruyere
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“This great misfortune — to be incapable of solitude.”

Jean De La Bruyere
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Solitude
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“A person’s worth in this world is estimated according to the value they put on themselves.”

Jean De La Bruyere
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Self-esteem
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“We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued.”

Jean De La Bruyere
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Self-esteem
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“A man can keep a secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.”

Jean De La Bruyere
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Secrets