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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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.
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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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Taste may change, but inclination never.
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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.
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In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
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If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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