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Jean de La Bruyère
(Aug 1645 - 10 May 1696)
French author and satirist.
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Science Quotes by Jean de La Bruyère (1)
Criticism is as often a trade as a science, requiring, as it does, more health than wit, more labour than capacity, more practice than genius.
— Jean de La Bruyère
In John Timbs (ed.), Laconics; or, The Best Words of the Best Authors (1929), 156.
See also: | Capacity (5) | Criticism (16) | Genius (53) | Health (61) | Labour (7) | Practice (4) | Science (444) | Trade (2) | Wit (5)
