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I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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Advice Liberal Most One People Think
Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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Desire Esteemed Oneself Politeness Treat
However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
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Anyone Converse Distrust Else Great More Sincerity Still Truth Yet
The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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Clever Consider Deceive Oneself Other Sure Way
The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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Cleavernes Deserve Point Principal
Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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Ambition Lead Love Offer Seldom
The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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Love Man might Mistake Mistress Own Sake Think
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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Easier Other Ourselves Wise
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is.
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Business Derive Involve Propose Simply Sturdy
No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
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Deserve General Goodness No One Power Praise Wick
We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
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All Come Despite Experience Find Fresh Ourselves Several Stage Together Year
We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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Hate Love More Near Wish
We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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Little Make Say Speak Vanity
We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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Big Confess Fault One People Persuade
Usually we praise only to be praised.
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On Praise Usually
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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Fault Last Long Only Quarrel Side

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