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• A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's.
  -- Jean Paul Richte...
• A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
  -- Jean Paul Richte...
• What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease. -- Jean Paul Richte
• Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
  Jean Paul Richte...
• In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our characte
  he multitude pass us by like a distant army. One friend, one teacher, one beloved, one club, one dining table, one work table are the means by which one's nation and the spirit of one's nation affect the individual....
• Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star! -- Paul Dirac
• Except by name, Jean Paul Friedrich Richter is little known out of Germany.
  The only thing connected with him, we think, that has reached this country is his saying,--imported by Madame de Stael, and thankfully pocketed by most newspaper critics,--"Providence has given to the French the empire of the land...
• Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
  You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house....
• Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window.
  You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house....