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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
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We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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How rare true love maybe, it is less so than true friendship.
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The truest way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.
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There are few things we should keenly desire if we really knew what we wanted.
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87.—Men would not live long in society were they not the dupes of each other. [A maxim, adds Aimé Martin, "Which may enter into the code of a vulgar rogue, but one is astonished to find it in a moral treatise." Yet we have scriptural authority for it: "Deceiving and being deceived."—2 TIM. iii. 13.]
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We are almost always bored by just those whom we must not find boring.
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One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.
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