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The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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Accept Find Opinion Seldom Sense Those
We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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Annoy Often Paradon Us
There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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Bad Dangerous Devoid Goodness People Quiet
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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Consequence Done Fear Much Remorse Repentance
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
The mind cannot long play the heart’s role.
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Cannot Herat Mind Play Role
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Blind Interest People Self Sharp Sight Some
In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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Altogether Best Dfiplease Friend Misfortune Something
Usually we praise only to be praised.
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On Praise Usually
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
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Enough God Good Happen Memory Recollect Retain
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
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Owe Pay Pride Wish
Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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Application Impact Impraticall Men Fail Rather Success
Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
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Dead Funeral Honor Like Love More Pomp Vanity
One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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Degree Forgive Love One
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

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