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La Rochefoucauld 493: It appears that men do not find they have enough faults, as they increase the...
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It appears that men do not find they have enough faults, as they increase the number by certain peculiar qualities that they affect to assume, and which they cultivate with so great assiduity that at length they become natural faults, which they can no longer correct.
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François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665) · laroch_493
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