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The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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Confess Fault Large Little One People Persuade
The accent of a man’s native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
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Accent Country Heart Man Mind Native Remain Speech
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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Cause Conceit Conversation More Wit
Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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Amended Cannot Character Defect Weakness
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
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Being Clever Desire Keep Often Seem
What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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Called Generously Give Only Thing Usually Vanity
We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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Little Make Say Speak Vanity
We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
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Admire Allow Always Those Who
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Age Defect Face Grow Mind Worse
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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Easier Other Ourselves Wise
On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
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Death Fixedly Look Man Neither Nor Sun
Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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Everything Impossible Mean Nothing Sufficient
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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Clever Enough Evil Know Man No
The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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Cleavernes Deserve Point Principal
Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Owe Pay Pride Wish

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