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The reason why so few persons are agreeable in conversation is that each

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123.--If we never flattered ourselves we should have but scant pleasure.

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them at their proper value, turns them to its own advantage, and adheres

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better than an inconstancy. (See Maxim 369, 381.)

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Letter To The Duke Of Grafton.

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his education. His natural talents and his habits of observation soon,

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agreeable in conversation is there is hardly a person who does not think

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become acquainted with it. If we could avoid seeing it with all its

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plots were discovered, the Duke was sent into a sort of banishment to

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51.--Nothing should so much diminish the satisfaction which we feel

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Mdlle. d'Hautefort, and it was proposed he should take both of them

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know my own language tolerably well, and have a good memory, a mode

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"There is a strange affectation," says the bishop, "in some people of

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strongly reminds us of Tacitus; of modern writers, Junius most strongly

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those which we have not.

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exactly as they are, we value them more or less than they are worth,

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nourishes and rears, without being aware of it, numberless loves and

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advice on the terms usually prescribed to us was little better than

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499.--We do not usually reckon a woman's first flirtation until she has

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427.--Most friends sicken us of friendship, most devotees of devotion.

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XXXVII.--Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not

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-------- of mind, 100.

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that they were supreme in misery; and certain it is{, that where} we

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364.--We well know that it is bad taste to talk of our wives; but we do

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Misfortunes, 19, 24, 174, 325.

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the death of that minister, he resigned it without knowing what he

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Living in the most brilliant society that France possessed, famous

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coldness, the Cardinal with irritation. Although the Bastile and the

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119.--We become so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that at

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fidelity, but it should not move an honest man; it is then that he can

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315.--What commonly hinders us from showing the recesses of our heart

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A mind full of details devotes itself to the management and regulation

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the eleventh century the Seigneur of a small town, La Roche, in the

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united. They doubtless hold together for different reasons, which cannot

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------, disgrace of, 235.

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105.--A man for whom accident discovers sense, is not a rational being.

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useful form of conversation there is.

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us. All these conditions have each an air which belong to them, but

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suffer has no resemblance to absolute pain which is always odious, and

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["The youth of friendship is better than its old age." --Hazlitt's

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have "singularity" for the first "singularly" and (2) Hobbes does not

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["It is said of untrue valours that some men's valours are in the eyes

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might be admitted without any violent prejudice to mankind. For in

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CXVIII.--When our merit declines, our taste declines also. (See Maxim

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241.--Flirtation is at the bottom of woman's nature, although all do not

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just and intelligible. Nothing escapes his observation, and he often

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business for us is that they almost always abandon the interest of their

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Rochefoucauld. A new edition, revised and improved, by L. D. London,

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Maximes et Pensees diverses suivant les copies Imprimees a Paris, chez

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few wish to do so more than sufficiently, or than is necessary to make

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