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Less Quotes by Jean de la Bruyere
- The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with…
- It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to…
- Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.
- Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.
- A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.
- No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends as to give them no cause to miss him less.
- 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…
- Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.
- It is more or less rude to scorn indiscriminately all kinds of praise; we ought to be proud of that which comes from honest men,…
- No vice exists which does not pretend to be more or less like some virtue, and which does not take advantage of this assumed resemblance.
- Whatever is certain in death is slightly alleviated by what is not so infallible; the time when it shall happen is undefined, but it is…
- Women are at little trouble to express what they do not feel; but men are still at less to express what they do feel.
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- A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you. — Margaret Atwood
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