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" No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so. "
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Those
Bear
Least
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" The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again. "
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" Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance. "
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