Joseph Chenier famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Good sense is at the bottom of everything: virtue, genius, wit, talent and taste.
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Wit resembles a coquette; those who the most eagerly run after it are the least favored.
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Taste is nothing but a delicate good sense.
-- Joseph Chenier
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Wisdom comes alone through suffering.
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Apparently, an undocumented side effect of dope is a gross overestimation of one's own intelligence. Dopers become convinced they've hidden their stash so well a cop won't find it. They're always wrong.
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Success comes more quickly to the entrepreneur that follows his instincts rather than following the progress of his competitors.
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Do rewards motivate people? Absolutely. They motivate people to get rewards.
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The color of truth is gray.
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A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.
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We taste Thee, O Thou Living Bread, And long to feast upon Thee still: We drink of Thee, the Fountainhead And thirst our souls from Thee to fill.
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A man obsessed: obsessed with perfection, sharing, aesthetics, taste, savoir-faire, and much more.
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Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts.
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Genius is always more suggestive than expressive.
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