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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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Cause Conceit Conversation More Wit
We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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Acknowledge Appear Fault From Great Make One Small
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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Death Eye Look Neither Steady Sum
We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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Deceive Dissemble Other Ourselves Time Use
We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.
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Deliver Fear Hope Our Promise Proportion
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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Advice Bad Example Good Man Old Set Something Too
Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.
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Accident Folly Help Little Necessary Out Some
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
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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Gratitude Hope Making Most Secret
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
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Accustomed Become Disguise Ourselves
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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According Fera Hope Perform Promise
The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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Clever Consider Deceive Oneself Other Sure Way
We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
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Appear Disguise Disguised Finally Habit Much Ourselves
That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.
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Boast Disposition Good Interest Moist Self Tender Urge
Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
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Decency Law Least Most Observe Strict
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

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