QUOTES by Joseph Joubert
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"The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress."
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"Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone."
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"We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us."
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"Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman."
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"Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features"
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"When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it"
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"It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it."
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"There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world."
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"It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle it without debate."
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"Choose in marriage only a woman whom you would choose as a friend if she were a man."
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"There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray."
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"We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future."
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"Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader."
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"Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear."
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"Does talent have any need of passions? Yes, of many passions - repressed."
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"The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress."
Quote by -Joseph Joubert