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Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes: Were we faultless, we would not derive such satisfaction from remarking the faults of others.
         

Were we faultless, we would not derive such satisfaction from remarking the faults of others.


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Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.



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