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The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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Cannot Herat Mind Play Role
Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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Correct Dangerous Fault Reprove Timidly Wish
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
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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Cause Conceit Conversation More Wit
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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Advice Away Give Liberally Men Nothing
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.
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Admirer Always Amount Indispensable Regard Something
Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
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Absolute Cease Certain Change Doubt Either Jealousy Madness Passion Turn
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Foolish Glow Older Wiser
Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.
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Counterfeit Deceive Judgement Reproduce Truth Well
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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Confess Fault Large Little One People Persuade
We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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All Ourselves Speak Talk
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
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Already Examine Happy Heart Posses Set Upon
The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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Always Love never Reason Talk Themselves Wear
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
Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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Conceal Fault Mean More Most Pardonable
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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Biggest Cleverest Idiot Make Men Passion

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