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La Rochefoucauld 220: Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste.
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Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste. ["Vanity bids all her sons be brave and all her daughters chaste and courteous. But why do we need her instruction?"--Sterne, Sermons.]
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François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665) · laroch_220
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