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Bad Quotes by Jean de la Bruyere
- There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously…
- Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from…
- Cheats easily believe others as bad as themselves; there is no deceiving them, nor do they long deceive.
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