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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Evil Good Hero Well
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
No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
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Deserve General Goodness No One Power Praise Wick
Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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Defect Displease Fault Meet Other People Please Some
It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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Conceal Counterfeit Crafty Dissimulation Long Love Most Power
Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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Guilt Innocense Much Near Protection So
When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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Claim Desire Disc Praise Second Show Time
Taste may change, but inclination never.
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Change Inclination never Testy
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
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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Favour Further Gratitude Hope Merely Secret
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
Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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Agreeable Deceive End Hope Lead Least Live Route Serve
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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Course Distrust Himself Safest Sincere
A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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Advantage Better Join Man Think Wise
He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Holy Live Think Wise Without
We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
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Annoy Often Paradon Us

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