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• We seldom repent talking too little, but very often talking too much. -- Jean de La Bruyere
• We seldom repent talking too little, but very often talking too much. -- Jean de la Bruyere
• A slave has but one master; the ambitious man has as many masters as there are persons whose aide may contribute to the advancement of his fortune.
  -- Jean de La Bruyere...
• We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all. -- Jean de La Bruyere
• There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste
  here are no honours too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience....
• A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and miserable dinner. -- Jean de La Bruyere
• It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgement to be silent.
  -- Jean de La Bruyere...
• Modesty is to merit as shades to figures in a picture
  giving it strength and beauty. -- Jean de La Bruyere...
• The best way to get on in the world is to make people believe it's to their advantage to help you.
  -- Jean de La Bruyere...