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Second Quotes by Jean de la Bruyere
- The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.
- 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…
- One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.
- Most men spend the first half of their lives making the second half miserable.
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