Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so.
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We rarely think that people have good sense unless they agree with us.
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We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears.
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There are very few women in society whose virtue outlasts their beauty.
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We think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion.
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People would never fall in love if they had not heard love talked about.
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True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.
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For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.
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How can we expect another to keep our secret, if we cannot keep it ourself.
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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