It is a great misfortune not to possess sufficient wit to speak well, nor sufficient judgment to keep silent
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A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value they put on themselves.Jean Bruyere
There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.
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One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit.
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From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and whose outstanding qualities shed a stupendous light. Like those extraordinary stars of whose origins we are ignorant, and of whose fate, once they have vanished, we know even less, such men have neither forebears nor descendants they are the whole of their race.
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Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit.
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Nothing more clearly shows how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other worldly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them.
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