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the continuance of tastes and feelings which we can neither create or

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everything, and we fear to know all kinds of truth.

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aristocracy, the Revolution of 1789, the family of La Rochefoucauld have

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62.--Sincerity is an openness of heart; we find it in very few

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ourselves free causes us to despise the good qualities we have not.

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----, Infidelity in, LXIV.

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different results. The greedy man is nearly always desirous to possess,

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as to use it on some great occasion to promote some great interest.

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"I am a fair critic of the works in verse and prose that are shown me;

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destroy. We should make our pleasure that of other persons, to humour,

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70.--There is no disguise which can long hide love where it exists, nor

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not agree as to the nature and importance of secresy. Too often we

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208.--There are foolish people who know and who skilfully use their

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has moralised all his life; he has thought so often on his last moments

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all appetite for that of which it is sated. But this thick darkness

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262.--There is no passion wherein self-love reigns so powerfully as in

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reason has not the strength to console us.

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London, 1689. She calls the author the Duke of Rushfucave. ii. Moral

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cette onde fatal Qu'on ne repasse jamais."

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CVI.--We find very few people of good sense, except those who are of our

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aspect and preserve their reason and liberty in the most surprising and

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with the same haste he undertook them, leads me to the conclusion that

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have a large mouth, lips generally red enough, neither shaped well nor

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services which we render, are in reality benefits we confer on ourselves

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XL.--Intrepidity should sustain the heart in conspiracies in place of

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XCIX.--If we think we love for love's sake we are much mistaken. (See

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unless it be truly that she should be, and possess truly all that she

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19.--We have all sufficient strength to support the misfortunes of

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from all three combined.

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thus strongly to please ourselves, and that to listen well and to answer

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set a price on the particular, and yet understands the right value that

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it commands are more strongly insisted upon when they happen not to be

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314.--The extreme delight we take in talking of ourselves should warn us

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conclaves, and his conduct has always increased his reputation.

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4ll.--We have few faults which are not far more excusable than the means

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sword cut and flinch from a bullet; others dread bullets little and fear

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state. There is a difference between meeting death with courage and

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If men only wished to excel by the help of their own talents, and in

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Confidence always pleases those who receive it. It is a tribute we pay

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successively exercise a secret empire over us, so that, without our

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469.--We never desire earnestly what we desire in reason.

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acquired qualities should always have a certain agreement and a certain

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472.--Pride as the other passions has its follies. We are ashamed to own

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unbearable to be obliged by a scoundrel.

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expressed in condensed sentences must always have a peculiar charm. It

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Politeness, 372, R.V.

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the page); and, finally, corrections and addenda are in curly brackets

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468.--Some bad qualities form great talents.

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less involuntary." La Bruyere: Du Coeur.]

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will not last for ever.