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Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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The accent of one’s birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one’s speech.
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Accept Birthplace Heart Mine One Remain Speech
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 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
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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Course Distrust Himself Safest Sincere
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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Death Eye Look Neither Steady Sum
Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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Blood Great Habit Inclination Make People Young
How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?
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Anyone Expect Keep Ourselves Secret Unable
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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Fortunate Imagine never One
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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Friendship However Less Love Rate True
If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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Due More Passion Resist Strength Weakness
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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Biggest Cleverest Idiot Make Men Passion
To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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Ability Great Hide Know One Skill
When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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Believe Doubt Firmly Love Man Most Often
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
Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
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Detail Happen Many Remember Same Time Tiniest Told
We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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Find People Seldom Serve Them Ungrateful

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