There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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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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We pardon to the extent that we love.
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Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
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True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
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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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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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Usually we praise only to be praised.
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
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Taste may change, but inclination never.
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
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