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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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Bore Forgive Offer Often Whom
Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
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Absolute Cease Certain Change Doubt Either Jealousy Madness Passion Turn
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Age Defect Face Grow Mind Worse
Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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Being Hinder Nature Nothing Ourselves Seem Strain
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
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Everyone Ghost Love Seen Talk True Love
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
Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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Cause Conceit Conversation More Wit
Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
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Detail Happen Many Remember Same Time Tiniest Told
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
Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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Community Crime Great Incapable Other Ready Suspect
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
The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
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Body Defect Fault Imagination Mind Taken Wound
When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
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Believe Doubt Love Most Often
We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.
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Deceive Dissemble Other Ourselves Time Use
A man’s worth has its season, like fruit.
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Fruit Man Season Worth
We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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Little Make Say Speak Vanity

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