When we disclaim praise it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
Quotes By Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus...
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Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a...
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The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures they are safe...
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You can find women who have never had an affair but it is hard to find a...
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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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One can find women who have never had one love affair but it is rare indeed...
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We give advice but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of...
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However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with yet...
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We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and...
Quotes About Time
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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a...
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No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every...
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It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em confuse 'em. It's an old...
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A lot of people would be embarrassed to admit that they were on 'Barney' but...
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I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin...
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I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
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No story is the same to us after a lapse of time or rather we who read it are...
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I'm being treated like a sex object cried the lady. No matter. I will take...
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If I have to move up in a building I choose the elevator over the escalator....