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Knows Quotes by Jean de la Bruyere
- False greatness is unsociable and remote: conscious of its own frailty, it hides, or at least averts its face, and reveals itself only enough to…
- We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much: a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows and, but which…
- Profound ignorance makes a man dogmatic. The man who knows nothing thinks he is teaching others what he has just learned himself; the man who…
- He who knows how to wait for what he desires does not feel very desperate if he fails in obtaining it; and he, on the…
- A man who knows how to make good bargains or finds his money increase in his coffers, thinks presently that he has a good deal…
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore. — Matthew Arnold
- Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business.… — Mary Astell
- A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children. — John James Audubon
- I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am… — John James Audubon
- A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens. — Robert Baden-Powell
- When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much. — Enid Bagnold
- What I respect in people more than anything is work ethic. And Justin Timberlake's got that. He works his tail off, and… — Amy Adams
- Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. — James A. Baldwin
- There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and… — James A. Baldwin
- A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. — Honore de Balzac
- The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the… — Djuna Barnes