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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?

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
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Accent Country Heart Man Mind Native Remain Speech
The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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Advice Liberal Most One People Think
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
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Evil Good Hero Well
What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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Called Generously Give Only Thing Usually Vanity
Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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Age Forbid Old Pain Pressure Under Youth
It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them.
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Also Enough Great Manage Quality
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
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
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
We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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Believe Happy Interest Make Ourselves
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
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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Criticism Deceive Good People Prefer Wisdom
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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Fault Last Long Only Quarrel Side
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
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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Easier Other Ourselves Wise

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