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• We seldom repent talking too little, but very often talking too much. -- Jean de la Bruyere
• SMILEY :-D talking too much
• 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....
• We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all. -- Jean de La Bruyere
• As riches and favor forsake a man, we discover him to be a fool, but nobody could find it out in his prosperity.
  -- Jean de La Bruyere...
• A short speech is often a good speech and certainly has the advantage of being much less able to be a bad speech than a long speech.
  A long speech is often a bad speech precisely because it was not a short speech....
• We never repent of having eaten too little." -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
• 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...