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Modesty Is To Merit As Shades To Figures In A Picture
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Modesty is to merit as shades to figures in a picture; giving it
strength and beauty.
-- Jean de La Bruyere
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A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and miserable dinner. -- Jean de La Bruyere
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The onset and the waning of love make themselves felt in the uneasiness experienced at being alone together.
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As riches and favor forsake a man, we discover him to be a fool, but nobody could find it out in his prosperity.
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We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all. -- Jean de La Bruyere