"The art of pleasing is the art of deception."

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Source : "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations". Book by John Bartlett, 1919.

Luc de Clapiers

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“It seems to me that the contrast between adjacent syllables has lessened and the result is an over-reliance on enjambment. Now enjambment is a fine, intellectually strong aid, but like all such things it becomes tiresome and calls too much attention to itself.”
“I think when youâ€™re young you should be a lot with yourself and your sufferings. Then one day you get out where the sun shines and the rain rains and the snow snows and it all comes together.”
“My long experience with all classes of humanity had made me somewhat of a student of human nature.”

Source : Oscar Micheaux (1994). “The Conquest: The Story of a Negro Pioneer”, p.73, U of Nebraska Press
“Success is buried in the garden of failure.”
“I rarely use the Internet for research, as I find the process cumbersome and detestable. The information gained is often untrustworthy and couched in execrable prose. It is unpleasant to sit in front of a twitching screen suffering assault by virus, power outage, sluggish searches, system crashes, the lack of direct human discourse, all in an atmosphere of scam and hustle.”

Source : "Close Range: Wyoming Stories". Book by Annie Proulx, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 1999.
“I always think of a voice as an instrument, whether a voice is a trumpet, or violin, or bass. You know what I mean? A horn or wind instrument versus a string instrument. Horn instruments are definitely more toward jazz.”
“You apply Pilates in everyday life, like how you sit, how you walk. You've heard a lot of people complain about back problems; it is because these people walk incorrectly with the last vertebra of their tailbone. They stick it out instead of pulling it in and down.”
“Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket.”

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