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The accent of one’s birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one’s speech.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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Company Keep Variety Virtue
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
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
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
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Body Gracefulness Mind Understanding
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Homage Hypocrisy Pay Vice Virtue
Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Blind Interest People Self Sharp Sight Some
Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.
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Conceal Fault Mean More Most Pardonable
In sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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Business Deprive Involve Self Love Simply Steady Sum
However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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Friendship However Less Love Rate True
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Age Defect Face Grow Mind Worse
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
There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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Bad Dangerous Devoid Goodness People Quiet
Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
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Advice Console Example Fond Give Men Old Proof Themselves
Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
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Alone Both Compulsion Contribute Fortune Generous Hero Nature Part
He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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Holy Live Think Wise Without

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