Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author. - Jean de La Bruyère

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Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.

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About Jean de La Bruyère

Jean de La Bruyère (16 August 1645 – 10 May 1696) was a French essayist and moralist.

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Alternative Names: Jean de La Bruyere Bruyère
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«Стараться забыть кого-то — значит всё время о нём помнить. Любовь тем похожа на укоры совести, что размышления и воспоминания лишь укрепляют её. Чтобы побороть свою страсть, нужно попытаться вовсе о ней не думать.»

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Some people, after having read a book, quote certain passages which they do not thoroughly understand, and moreover completely change their character by what they put in of their own. Those passages, so mutilated and disfigured that they are nothing else but their own expressions and thoughts, they expose to censure, maintain them to be bad, and the world agrees with them; but the passage such critics think they quote, and in reality do not, is not a bit the worse for it.

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