How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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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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There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
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If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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