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• Most men employ the first part of their life, to make the rest miserable. -- de La Bruyere
• Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable.
  -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)...
• 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
• 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...
• 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....
• 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 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...