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Quotes from Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

1792–1870 Switzerland

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What we gain by experience is not worth that we lose in illusion.

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Do not crowd the understanding; it can comprehend so much and no more. A pint pot will not contain the measure of a quart.

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We are told to walk noiselessly through the world, that we may waken neither hatred nor envy; but, alas! What can we do when they never sleep!

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To protect ourselves against the storms of passion, marriage with a good woman is a harbor in the tempest; but with a bad woman it is a tempest in the harbor.

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Experience unveils too late the snares laid for youth; it is the white frost which discovers the spider’s web when the flies are no longer there to be caught.

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It is only before those who are glad to hear it, and anxious to spread it, that we find it easy to speak ill of others.

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To endeavor to move by the same discourse hearers who differ in age, sex, position and education, is to attempt to open all locks with the same key.

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Age whitens hairs, but not sin.

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No woman dares express all she thinks.

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There are philanthropists who, incapable of managing their own little affairs, take upon themselves those of the whole world; but as their creditors always outnumber their disciples, they owe humanity more than she will ever owe them.

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Rage is a short-lived fury.

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The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people. It cannot be too often repeated that it is dangerous to enter upon a career of letters without some other means of living. An illustrious author has said in these times, “Literature must not be leant on as upon a crutch; it is little more than a stick.”

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