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How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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Fruit Man Season Worth
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
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
There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
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Desire Effort Internet Make Us Useful Various
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
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Age Defect Face Grow Mind Worse
People’s personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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Build Facade People Personality Pleasant Some Various
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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Clever Enough Evil Know Man No
The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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Love Man might Mistake Mistress Own Sake Think
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
On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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Death Fixedly Look Man Neither Nor Sun
I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.
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Admirer Always Amount Indispensable Regard Something
It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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All Credit Duty Keep Lazy Other Timidity Use Virtue
What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is.
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Business Derive Involve Propose Simply Sturdy
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
Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
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Always Concern Friend Loss Need Own Sense Worth

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