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Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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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Disguise Exist Hide Love Simulate
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Foolish Glow Older Wiser
The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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Clever Consider Deceive Oneself Other Sure Way
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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Being Clever Desire Keep Often Seem
Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
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Achievement Apt Exact Flatter Great Men Own Themselves Truth
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
Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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Ambition Lead Love Offer Seldom
One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
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Affair Find Indeed never One Only Rare Women
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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Interest Self Vice Virtue World
There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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Imitation Kind Love Thousand
Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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Dishonor Man More Ridicule
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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Fortunate Imagine never One
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
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Imagine Leave Them Vice
Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
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Confidence Contribution Conversion More
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Blind Interest People Self Sharp Sight Some

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