Lofty posts make great men greater still, and small men much smaller. - Jean de La Bruyère

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L'on veut faire tout le bonheur, ou si cela ne se peut ainsi, tout le malheur de ce qu'on aime.

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La libéralité consiste moins à donner beaucoup qu'à donner à propos.

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Nothing more clearly shows how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other worldly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them.

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