No man is so perfect, so ...
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If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him.
Quotes from the same author
Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
Jean de La Bruyère
Love and friendship exclude each other.
Jean de La Bruyère
Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father.
Jean de la Bruyere
During the course of our life we now and then enjoy some pleasures so inviting, and have some encounters of so tender a nature, that though they are forbidden, it is but natural to wish that they were at least allowable. Nothing can be more delightful, except it be to abandon them for virtue's sake.
Jean de la Bruyere
If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is the father.
Jean de la Bruyere
