"People would never fall in love if they hadn't heard love talked about."
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"Things often offer themselves to our mind in a more finished form in the very first thought, than we might have made them by muchart and study."
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"It is sometimes a point of as much cleverness to know to make good use of advice from others as to be able give good advice to oneself."
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"As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is that of little minds to use many words to say nothing."
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"We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves we have no great ones."
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"We label judges with having the meanest motives, and yet we desire that our reputation and fame should depend upon the judgment of men, who are all, either from their jealousy or preoccupation or want of intelligence, opposed to us - and yet despite their bias, just for the sake of making these men decide in our favor, we peril in so many ways both our peace and our life."
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"The person giving the advice returns the confidence placed in him with a disinterested eagerness... and he is usually guided only by his own interest or reputation."
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"There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us and others who please us in spite of their faults."
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"The only good copies are those which make us see the absurdity of bad originals."
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"Whilst weakness and timidity keep us to our duty, virtue has often all the honor."
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"What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own."
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"The qualities we have, make us so ridiculous as those which we affect."
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"Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste."
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"The head does not know how to play the part of the heart for long."
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"Οur own distrust somewhat justifies the deceit of others."
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"It often happens that things come into the mind in a more finished form than could have been achieved after much study."
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"Tastes in young people are changed by natural impetuosity, and in the aged are preserved by habit."
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"Sometimes we think we dislike flattery, but it is only the way it is done that we dislike."
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"There are some bad qualities which make great talents."
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"We love everything on our own account; we even follow our own taste and inclination when we prefer our friends to ourselves; and yet it is this preference alone that constitutes true and perfect friendship."
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