Emile de Girardin famous quotes

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You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.
Be more interested in people's character, than their contributions.
The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.
The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.
The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and dictates while the other half listens and notates. The half that listens has better look the other way, had better simulate a half attention only, for the half that dictates is easily disgruntled and avenges itself for too close inspection by fading entirely away.
You can teach taste, editorial sense, but the ability to say something funny is something I've never been able to teach anyone.
It is bad enough to be bad, but to be bad in bad taste is unpardonable.
A man obsessed: obsessed with perfection, sharing, aesthetics, taste, savoir-faire, and much more.
Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts.
For every traveller who has any taste of his own, the only useful guidebook will be the one which he himself has written.

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