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As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Body Gracefulness Mind Understanding
The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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Cheat Cun One Other Self Sure Think
What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
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Ambition Disguised Generously Interest Order Overlook Secure Seem Small
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
The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
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Only Some Surprise Thing
Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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Ambition Lead Love Offer Seldom
We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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Endure Enough Misfortune Other Strength
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
It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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Easier General Know Men Particular
Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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All Heart Mond Not Those Well
In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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Almost Always Being Heart Human Passion Rise
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Foolish Glow Older Wiser
The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.
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Born Mark Noble One Quality Sure
Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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Desire Esteemed Oneself Politeness Treat
Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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Bad Currency Five Flattery Kind Money Vanity

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