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

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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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Faculty Great Lesser May Mind Much Talk Word
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can’t quite name.
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Act Being Head Inside Light Name Old People Perhaps Quiet Room
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
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
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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Amended Cannot Character Defect Weakness
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
Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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Desire Esteemed Oneself Politeness Treat
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Evil Good Hero Well
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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Absence Candle Diminishes Extinguish Fan Increase Mediocre Passion
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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Fault Last Long Only Quarrel Side
There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
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Ashamed Been Each Few Longer Love Not Other People
Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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Complain Everyone Judgement Memory Nobody
One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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Degree Forgive Love One
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
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Assistance Bear Cut Form Jealous Make Pain Vanity
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
There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
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Great Many Men Nothing Recommend Serviceable Society Value

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